2020 Heat Health Dialogues Outcomes

Heat in the City

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• Coverage: Eat or stay cool? Cities test ways to protect the poor from rising heat 
   
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Heat in the Workplace

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• Coverage: As workers sweat, pressure grows on employers to turn down the heat 
   
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On the Frontlines: Climate Change Threatens the Health of America’s Workers

This NRDC report brings together the latest research along with new reporting to better understand the many climate-related risks workers face, and how we can address them to improve worker safety in our changing world. Learn more and download >

UNDRR Hazard definition and classification review

The UNDRR/ISC Sendai Hazard Definition and Classification Review Technical Report supports the 3 UN landmark agreements in 2015 (Sendai, SDGs, and Paris) by providing a common set of hazard definitions for monitoring and reviewing implementation which calls for “a data revolution, rigorous accountability mechanisms and renewed global partnerships”. Learn more and download >

C40 Heat Resilient Cities Tool

This new Excel-based tool has been designed to help city planners and decision-makers to quantify the health, economic and environmental benefits of common urban heat adaptation actions and is the first of its kind to quantify these benefits. Learn more and download tool >

Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through urban climate action

This guide for Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through urban climate action provides practical opportunities for incorporating urban climate action and human settlement issues into the current NDC revision and enhancement process, drawing on existing knowledge and networks. Learn more and download guide >

Here's What Extreme Heat Looks Like: Profoundly Unequal

New York Times. Earth is overheating. This year is poised to be one of the hottest ever. Millions are already feeling the pain, but the agony of extreme heat is profoundly unequal across the globe. Read more >

State of the Climate in 2019: Last decade was Earth's hottest on record as climate crisis accelerates

The Guardian. The past decade was the hottest ever recorded globally, with 2019 either the second or third warmest year on record, as the climate crisis accelerated temperatures upwards worldwide, scientists have confirmed. 
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Life and Death in Our Hot Future Will Be Shaped by Today’s Income Inequality

Bloomberg. Your future risk of dying from heat will be determined more than anything else by where you live and the local consequences of today’s economic inequality. That’s the conclusion of a major paper released today by the Climate Impact Lab, a research consortium that spent years mapping the relationship between temperature, income, and mortality. Read more >

Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C

The Guardian. It is the temperature at which human cells start to cook, animals suffer and air conditioners overload power grids. Once an urban anomaly, 50C is fast becoming reality. Read more >

Heatwave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives

Thomson Reuters Foundation. Giving heatwaves names and ratings - much like hurricanes - could help people understand the growing threat, heat experts say. 
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Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study

The Guardian. The growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising global temperatures will come close to eclipsing the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if planet-heating emissions are not constrained, a major new study has found.
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Poor Neighborhoods Feel Brunt Of Rising Heat. Cities Are Mapping Them To Bring Relief

NPR. Mapping urban heat islands through citizen science partnerships create highly localized maps that highlight vulnerable areas. Read more >