Advancing Urban Heat Resilience Across ASEAN Cities
Urban heat is emerging as a critical challenge for cities across Southeast Asia, with rising temperatures, longer heatwaves and increasing impacts on health, livelihoods and vulnerable communities. Against this backdrop, the CLARE–ASEAN Initiative at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) convened a regional webinar on “Urban Heat Management for Climate Adaptation and Resilience in ASEAN […]
From Policy to People: How ICLEI South Asia is Supporting Heat Resilience in Indian Cities
As temperatures soar past 45°C across parts of India, extreme heat is a life-threatening reality for millions. For a construction worker on an exposed site, a street vendor without shade, a domestic worker walking long distances, or an elderly woman in a tin-roofed home without electricity, heatwaves intensify existing vulnerabilities. Even children playing outdoors are […]
CDKN Asia, TARU Develop Knowledge Materials on Heat Resilience and Disaster Preparedness
Under the CDKN Knowledge Accelerator programme, TARU Leading Edge Pvt. Ltd. has developed a City Heat Resilience Toolkit to sensitise and capacitate urban local bodies on risks and impacts of excessive heat events. The toolkit provides a decision-making platform for local governments to analyse direct and indirect impacts of heat waves on the public environment […]