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Displaying 30 of about 221 results… proMETEO Sevilla , its naming and categorization pilot for heat waves in Seville, Spain. The pilot categorizes heat waves based on their expected health impacts, with … and to encourage public administrators to prioritize heat wave responses. The pilot will position Seville as an urban …
By Helena Smith
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Decades of reckless urban planning are catching up with the city. Pollution, densely packed neighbourhoods and traffic congestion – byproducts of an uncontrolled building spree that began in the 1950s – are still evident today.
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The Greek capital has been singled out in studies on the risks posed by climate change. An anal…
… will experience the most significant relative increase in heat exposure and cooling requirements if global warming … ventilation – like greenhouses. The effects of extra heat are thus felt more acutely in these countries. Compared … tropics will see the largest absolute increase in extreme heat as measured in this way if global temperatures rise from …
… trends expected to exacerbate the risk of urban heat stress, implementing adaptation measures is paramount to limit the adverse impacts of heat on urban inhabitants. Identification of the best options … research to date considers the perceived impacts of heat among urban residents. Based on a household survey in …
… was characterised by an intense series of record-breaking heat waves, droughts and forest fires. While Eurostat, the … dates, until now the fraction of mortality attributable to heat had not been quantified. This is precisely what has been … analysis, published in Nature Medicine , estimates 61,672 heat-attributable deaths between 30 May and 4 September 2022. …
… The third in the Turn Down the Heat series, this report examines climate scenarios in three … well-being. The report complements the first Turn Down the Heat report (2012) that offered a global overview of climate … lower levels of warming. … The third in the Turn Down the Heat series, this report examines climate scenarios in three …
… did a comprehensive mortality impact assessment due to heat and cold in European urban areas, considering … geographical differences and age-specific risks. Heat and cold are established environmental risk factors for … exceptional mortality effect related to the European heat wave in some locations. In each city, the model is fitted on …
CNN in cooperation with The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the Carbon Disclosure Project showcases how five major cities (Melbourne, Tokyo, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Lagos) prepare for climate change related risks. The pages dedicated to each city show climate change related risks, impacts on locals, and the adaptation measures the local govern…
… Communications, shows that El Niño triggered the heat, causing about half of the warming, while global warming caused one-third and raised the heat into record-breaking territories, according to the … in investigating the factors behind such extreme heat, including the impact of the record-breaking El Niño of …
… variability leads to worst-case successive and compounding heat and drought stress accumulating to produce the most … extreme decades, and how soon into the near future such heat and drought loaded decades could bring a taste of the … The mechanism behind this link involves barotropic wave-train structures driven by the warm North Atlantic …
… the Gap in German Loss and Damage Data. The Importance of Heat- and Drought-related Extreme Events Summary of Results … in the industry sector 17 5.4 Comparing loss and damage of heat and drought with the flash floods of July 2021 18 6 … nate, and Hesse. A particularly long heat wave occurred in Lower Franconia, the Rhine-Main area, and …
… A heat wave grips the Mediterranean as wildfires hit Spain, … to stay indoors during the hottest hours as the second heat wave in as many weeks hits the region and Greece, Spain, and …
… the 1970s, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the heat gained by the planet . This has a range of impacts, … storms . But our focus was on how warming oceans boost wave power. We looked at wave conditions over the past 35 … more energy is being pumped into the oceans in the form of heat. And a more energetic ocean means larger wave heights …
… for Climate Change, announced plans to name and categorize heat waves. The announcement cements heat’s position among Seville’s chief climate threats and … first city in the world to develop and implement a heat wave naming and categorization system that aims at saving …
… climate projections show a substantial increase in urban heat by 2050 (50 percent increase in the number of heat-wave days in a high-emissions climate scenario) and it is …