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The First Global Heat Health Information Network Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum will take place on 7-10 January 2025 in Singapore, under the theme of ‘“Toward a heat resilient Southeast Asia: Enhancing livelihoods and wellbeing.”

  The Forum, with support from Wellcome, will serve as a pivotal platform for enhancing Southeast Asia’s regional capacity, fostering partnerships, and promoting evidence-based policies to manage extreme heat risks effectively in the region.   Focusing on Southeast Asia, this invitation-only event will focus on areas of urban heat, heat at work, and community, cultural & traditional perspectives. The Forum will address:  

• Heat exposure from multi-sectoral perspectives
• Impacts of heat on people, health, and livelihoods
• Strategies and solutions to mitigate heat risk
• Key enablers for effective heat risk management

  Interested in participating? Submit your abstracts or indicate your interest via the event website.  

This conference will examine the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable outdoor workers in urban Vietnam.   Precarious outdoor workers in urban megacities, especially in the global South, are among the most exposed to climate change impacts. In Vietnam, where rapid urbanisation and a large informal workforce shape the landscape, outdoor workers face heightened health risks due to extreme weather conditions. These conditions are worsening with climate change, the risks are underexplored, and the policies to address these risks are still in early development.   This research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, seeks to fill critical knowledge gaps by exploring the health vulnerabilities and climate-related risks faced by outdoor workers in urban Vietnam. Conducted in collaboration with multiple local partners — including Vietnam Medical Association, Social Life Research Institute, Institute for Development & Community Health LIGHT and local worker communities — the research will produce new evidence-based insights to inform policy solutions on the climate change-induced health risks faced by vulnerable outdoor workers in urban contexts. These findings will help policymakers devise interventions that align with the realities of outdoor workers' lives and working conditions.   To launch the project, we are hosting a one-day event that will bring together key stakeholders, including government officials, academics, experts, practitioners, civil society, and funders. The event will showcase some preliminary findings, highlight the project's significance, and facilitate in-depth discussions on the challenges and opportunities associated with addressing climate change-related health risks in the global South.

Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sources, story angles and ideas on how to cover the mounting impacts of this climate threat. The practical and interactive course will help you integrate heat stories within your regular reporting beat, and offer guidance on rethinking heat visuals.

The EGU General Assembly 2025 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

The First GHHIN Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum is seeking to tap into the collective wisdom in Southeast Asia and provide a platform for the sharing of ideas, research and strategies in the focus areas of (a) Urban heat; (b) Heat at Work as well as to begin a compilation of the (c) Cultural & Traditional knowledge of good practices on heat management within the region.   A wide array of disciplines is welcomed, such as architecture & urban design, clothing, food & agriculture, medicine, occupational & physical activity-related, and other cooling techniques etc. Selected case studies will be presented during the Forum in either poster or oral presentation formats.   Successful submissions may be selected for further developed for inclusion in a regional report; the secretariat will work with submitters of selected cases to produce concise summaries, which will be promoted and made available on the GHHIN website and, as appropriate, in subsequent publications.   Submission closes: 13 Dec 2024

The hybrid Sri Lanka launch of the 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown will take place from 13:00-16:00 IST on 12 December 2024, and will be co-hosted by Centre for Planetary Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, and the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA).

Join us to celebrate the Greater Sydney Heat Smart City Plan. Hear directly from government, industry, community and research-sector leaders who developed the Plan together, to drive positive action across our city. This is not your standard launch event. The Plan has been co-designed by diverse Taskforce members who are serious about solving problems and taking tangible actions together. This symposium is a chance to understand the work so far and work with us on the next important steps.

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in a virtual webinar of the Canadian Heat Health Community of Practice (HCoP) on Thursday, November 21st, 2024, from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT. During this webinar, we’ll hear about heat-health impacts during the summer of 2024 as well as learn how the 2021 Heat Dome in western Canada impacted the health of people with schizophrenia. Health Canada’s HCoP is a forum for public health professionals across Canada to learn and share best practices in protecting the health of Canadians from extreme heat events. We host several webinars annually with speakers from varying disciplines presenting on topics relevant to keeping Canadians safe during heat events.

In line with the 2023 Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which states that “increasing adaptive capacity minimizes risk associated with involuntary migration and immobility and improves the degree of choice under which migration decisions are made”,  IOM works on human mobility in the context of climate change through policy and programmatic action at international, regional, national and local levels and towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Join the regional round table hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) on extreme heat at the COP29 Health Pavilion . The Pavilion will be located in the Blue Zone of the Baku Stadium. All in-person participants have to secure their badges to enter the Blue Zone by being part of their national delegation or any other official delegation.