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.
This session will spotlight the intersection of gender and urban heat resilience, focusing on cities at the forefront of innovative, gender-responsive approaches to combat rising heatwaves. As urban areas face increasing heat risks, women, children, marginalized communities, and the urban poor are disproportionately affected. By incorporating gender-sensitive frameworks into urban heat response strategies, cities can drive both climate resilience and social equity.
Join this event on Extreme Heat that will be part of 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.
The session aims to create the sense of urgency to enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of countries to address the risk of extreme heat and reduce its impacts through fostering multi-sectoral collaboration and promoting innovative, scalable policies and practices. The session will review the current magnitude of the challenge of extreme heat and its global and disproportionate impact, including in the urban context.
At COP29 this year, UNEP Cool Coalition is collaborating with the GlobalABC to host a joint Buildings and Cooling Pavilion. This Pavilion aims to bring together the entire built environment value chain and the cooling community, creating a unified voice to drive building decarbonisation and resilience, while addressing the challenges of extreme heat and sustainable cooling.
Heat has always been a risk to workers, but climate change is exacerbating the threat to worker safety, health, and well-being worldwide. A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental principle and right at work, but many are excluded from protections or cannot negotiate for safer conditions. A worker-centered just transition includes advancing domestic action and global cooperation to protect the more than 2.4 billion workers worldwide exposed to heat stress.
A high-level event will be organized at COP29, to stock take on the implementation of EW4ALL and the global response to call to action on extreme heat, with participation of leaders from developed and developing countries, financiers, private sector and CSO representatives, with the following objectives and expected outcomes.
WHO in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the health community will be hosting the Health Pavilion at the COP29 UN Climate Conference, taking place in Baku, the Republic of Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. The Health Pavilion will convene the global health community and key stakeholders across various sectors to ensure health and equity are placed at the centre of climate negotiations. It will offer a rich 2-week programme of events showcasing evidence, initiatives and solutions to maximize the health benefits of tackling climate change across regions, sectors and communities.
The NUS-Cambridge Joint Symposium, initiated in 2012, serves as a platform for scientific exchange and collaboration between the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS and the School of Clinical Medicine at Cambridge. This 11th edition celebrates the strong partnership, bringing together leading researchers and clinicians to share advancements, foster collaborations and explore innovative solutions to today’s challenges.
The Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum WUF12, convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), will take place in Cairo, Egypt, from 4 to 8 November 2024, returning to the African continent after more than 20 years after its inception in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2002.
This session is part of the Climate Change and Health Forum, the second round of the Child Health Task Force’s (CHTF) successful 2022-23 webinar series on climate change and children’s health. This session is jointly hosted by the Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) Collaborative, CHTF, Save the Children, Global Communities, Global Climate and Health Alliance and UNICEF.
The virtual global launch of the 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown will take place from 15:00 GMT on 30 October and will bring together a diverse group of inspiring speakers and guests including world leaders, technical experts, young activists, and those experiencing first-hand the effects of our heating world
Join us for a funding webinar to present our latest climate and mental health funding opportunity, Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health. This award will fund projects to advance our understanding of how heat impacts anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most affected groups globally through biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms.
As heatwaves grow more frequent and severe due to climate change, their effects on human health are becoming increasingly alarming. This event invites you to engage in a vital discussion on how extreme heat is impacting our bodies, communities, and healthcare systems.
Through this discussion, we will explore the science behind heatwaves and their growing intensity, the risks posed to public health—particularly for vulnerable groups—and the broader implications for society as global temperatures continue to rise.
The objective of the 18th edition is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions on our current state of knowledge of Mediterranean risks in a climate change context. Different aspects related to monitoring, assessment, diagnosis, prediction, and definition of weather extremes, wildfires, hydro-geological effects, impacts on natural resources, agriculture, health and society, as well as adaptation capacity and preservation strategies for natural and cultural heritage at risk, will be addressed with a multi-sectorial approach. This will be achieved by bringing together scientific experts in the fields of meteorology, hydrology, wildfires, geomorphology, sociology, engineering, cultural heritage conservation, and governmental or private risk management actors.
Planned deadlines
Abstract submission deadline: 3 May 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 May 2024
Letter of schedule (programme publication): 28 June 2024
The BeBrit project will culminate with a one-day Extreme Heat Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Event. The aim of the event is to share knowledge, practical innovations and experiences, developments in research and think together about future planning and preparedness for extreme heat.
Who is the event for?
Federal, regional and city government and officials responsible for climate change, adaptation, resilience, environment, urban planning etc;
Anyone who is working in a sector that is affected by extreme heat or could be in the future e.g. public health, health and social care, transport, water, emergency services (fire, ambulance, search and rescue), buildings and architecture, planning, infrastructure, agriculture, trade unions, tourism)
Anyone researching extreme heat e.g. academics, consultants
Please note: This is an in-person event in Brussels and places are strictly limited. Please register your interest in attending. Then we will let you know if a place is available or if you are on the waiting list.
The UN Secretary General recently released a call to action on extreme heat, declaring that “the world must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures.” To rise to the challenge, major gaps must be addressed in public health, medicine, technology, climatology, and risk analysis. We will hear from local and global policymakers about the tools most urgently needed to manage risk and prevent deaths from extreme heat. Then, we will hear from innovators collaborating to accelerate solutions. The event will be moderated by Jeff Goodell, author of New York Times best seller The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.
Project HEATWAVE is an interdisciplinary, international effort housed at NYU Langone School of Medicine to rapidly build a framework and set of tools for projecting, analyzing, and managing responses to extreme heat for populations. Led by distinguished public health expert Anna Bershteyn, Project HEATWAVE includes multiple institutional partners and senior experts from a range of disciplines.
Extreme Weather Survivors is a new nonprofit building and activating a national network of people harmed by extreme weather events. Our team is organizing, mobilizing, and placing extreme weather survivors on air, in town halls, on social media, with policymakers and as leading voices in accountability efforts.
During this panel we’ll first hear the harrowing, emotional, and – yes – persuasive stories of those who have been personally harmed, who they blame [fossil fuel polluters], and finally how they can change narratives and offer an olive branch to others not yet in this fight. Dr. Delta Merner from the Union of Concerned Scientists will provide insight into the connection between extreme weather and climate change and Richard Wiles of Center for Climate Integrity will discuss ways that harmed individuals and the officials who represent them can demand justice and pursue accountability.
Join this panel of Harvard faculty from medicine, public health, and law in conversation with experts and leaders from the domestic and global labor movements examining the impact of rising global temperatures on workers’ health, livelihoods, and productivity.
Climate Resolve is hosting a breakthrough event on the global and local benefits of deploying cool surfaces (roofs, walls, and pavement). “Enlisting Sunlight in the Fight Against Climate Change” will cover the potential for cool surface deployment in our built environment to (1) improve the Earth’s global energy budget by reflecting sunlight back to space, mitigating the greenhouse effect; and (2) protect public health by cooling temperatures at the local scale, lessening the urban heat island effect.
With global temperatures soaring to unprecedented levels, the world is facing a critical moment to safeguard public health in the face of extreme heat. Heat is now the number one weather-related killer in the U.S., and the need for innovative, long-term solutions has never been more urgent, particularly in communities that are already vulnerable. A multi-sector approach – including healthcare, governments, NGOs and business – is essential to ensure community-based healthcare adaptation and resilience.
Situated within the field of urban climatology and related disciplines, the conference will offer an opportunity to present findings from past and on-going research projects as well as practical applications in planning and implementation. The conference also aims at providing a platform to network and strengthen the exchange of the Swiss research, service, and implementation community focussing on the multifaceted interactions between cities, climate (change), and human health.
Climate Visuals and Climate Resilience for All have developed new guidance for image commissioners, producers and publishers to promote a more accurate visual representation of extreme heat, one that moves beyond familiar visual cliches and images of fun in the sun, and tells detailed, nuanced, and engaging stories about its risks, as well as helping to visualise adaptation and mitigation.
As global heat records continue to fall, and the death toll rises, join Climate Resilience for All, Climate Visuals and photographers at the frontlines of heat impacts for an online discussion at 2pm BST on Wednesday 21st August about how to more effectively tell the story of rising heat risks visually.
All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) is hosting a virtual roundtable discussion on Extreme Heat Adaptation and Mitigation Programming: Lessons from the Affected Population
Join us on August 13th, 2024, at 11 a.m. as New Jersey's Interagency Council on Climate Resilience (IAC) hosts a panel of climate and weather experts to discuss how and why NJ's temperatures have changed over time and what we can expect moving forward.
At this webinar, you'll learn:
Impacts of this warming trend
Differences between weather and climate
Urban Heat Island effects and their impact on NJ's overall warming
We are super excited to host our subreddit's first Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on July 16th from 3-7pm Eastern Time (EDT). Join us to ask your burning questions about how heat impacts health, what strategies you can use to stay cool, how you can support your community during extreme heat events, and much more. We'll have 3 experts (maybe 4) to share the latest research and nerd out with you on all things extreme heat.
New Mexico faces an unprecedented public health crisis as extreme heat is projected to break temperature records again this summer. Healthy Climate New Mexico is excited to host this virtual Summit to ensure that health professionals understand the health impacts of extreme heat and are prepared to take action to address this threat in their communities. The Summit will increase knowledge about the worsening health impacts of heat, including data, trends, and risks. Participants will learn how to reduce the harms associated with extreme heat to help reduce the risks of heat to their community, home, or workplace, especially for our most vulnerable populations. CEs available: CHW, CHES, and SW.
Interpretación simultánea en español disponible
The Extreme Heat Workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to assess and advance the state of knowledge on the mechanisms of concurrent, compounding, and record-breaking heat extremes; to identify community needs; and to develop an interdisciplinary framework for evaluating their risks on sectors including public health, energy, and agriculture, with a cross-cutting focus on climate justice.
Register to attend and/or present. Early career researchers may apply for travel support.
Early career researcher travel funds application: May 1, 2024
Abstract submission: May 15, 2024
Registration: June 15, 2024
SHARE is a free online conference co-hosted by the University of Brighton School of Sport and Health Sciences, Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.
There will be keynote talks, oral presentations and posters around this year's theme of:
Fast-tracking resilient and environmentally sustainable health systems
Students, academics, researchers, clinical and estates colleagues from any discipline interested in sustainable healthcare are welcome to attend.
The FHF Global Summit will convene diverse stakeholders from the climate and health communities to build our collective knowledge, strengthen new and existing partnerships, and identify opportunities to move together from awareness and political will to action and impact. Learn more at www.fhfsummit.org.
WHO has recently released a new series of policy briefs to support strategic reflection among urban health decision-makers. Each brief focuses on a cross-cutting theme: generating and working with evidence; governance and financing; innovation; and partnerships and participation. Collectively, these represent the essential “means of implementation” that set the stage for a strategic approach to urban health.
This webinar will present the new series. Discussants from a range of domains will reflect on the value of strategic approaches to urban health and prospects for amplifying and scaling best practices. The event will also feature a call for case studies that illustrate strategic action for urban health at city or national level.
The training will focus on flood risk assessments and specific challenges for assessing flood risk in refugee and IDP camps; gauging long-term heat stress in refugee camps and the challenges with decision making surrounding heat risk; and monitoring drought effects on agricultural landscapes in refugee settings using Earth observations (EO) to explore the correlations between anomalies in crop productivity and weather-based factors.
The one-hour summit will provide insights from distinguished experts who are at the forefront of efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of extreme heat on the workforce. Through interactive discussions and a thought-provoking panel, participants will explore innovative methodologies to assess risks and adapt operations amid the evolving climate landscape.
The What Works Climate Solutions Summit is a high-level conference for evidence-based climate policy that will take place June 9–12, 2024. It will promote and catalyze synthetic evidence on climate solutions for upcoming climate change assessments – particularly the IPCC’s 7th Assessment Report ─ as well as other forms of scientific policy advice.
Please fill out the information in the form linked to show us your interest in participating in Heat Action Day on Sunday June 2nd, 2024. We will use this information to get in contact with you with details on how to plan for the Heat Action Day.
Discussions at WCS 2024 will centre around the theme “Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Rejuvenate, Reinvent, Reimagine”. How do we achieve smart, resilient and regenerative cities now and for future generations? Go to the Programmes section for a first look at our Conference Concept Note, and our Plenary sessions.
The Sahel region is known for its vulnerability to extreme weather events. In anticipation of the 2024 heat season, which is expected to be extremely hot, it is crucial for meteorological agencies, public health services, and humanitarian actors to come together to understand, prepare for, these events to mitigate the potential impacts. To this end, the Anticipation Hub, with support from the Red Cross Climate Centre and the Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile et de la Meteorologie of Senegal (in its Regional Specialised Meteorological Center capacity) is hosting a series of three webinars on Sahelian heat waves on 23, 30 April and 07 May 2024.
Objective
The primary objective of this series of webinars is to raise awareness of the particularity of the predicted extreme heat this year and provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing among meteorological agencies, public health services, disaster managers, researchers and humanitarian actors to enhance preparedness and response efforts.
Key Themes
1. Extreme heat trends in the Sahel and outlook for the 2024 Heat Season: An overview of observed and projected trends in temperatures/heat waves in the Sahel region, insights from global climate drivers and forecasts for the April-June 2024 season.
2. Impacts on Public Health and relevant sectors: Review of the state of the research on the impacts of Sahelian extreme heat events, including health impacts on vulnerable populations, impacts on livelihood, water and energy. The availability and access of data across different sectors will be discussed.
3. Preparedness and Response Strategies: Best practices on extreme heat risk management in the Sahel and elsewhere, including early warning early action systems, heat wave action plans, and community outreach initiatives and the role of government and humanitarian organisations.
Language
The sessions will be in French and English and livestream translation will be provided.
Transformative change is built on strong networks and connections between diverse people. The CBA conference series aims to bring together a community of practitioners and other key stakeholders, collectively seeking to reimagine solutions that enable transformative outcomes through the agency, knowledge and skills of local communities.
Climate change is a threat to the patients we care for in health care. This course will be an opportunity for practicing health professionals to learn about the mechanisms by which climate change impacts human health and how it influences diagnosis, counseling and treatment plans. It will additionally describe the impacts of climate changes on the health care delivery system itself and how health care professionals can make change to address this public health threat. The course will be organized to touch upon climate impacts on a diversity of health conditions and disease processes and will be valuable to health care providers of all fields.
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Descubre las conexiones entre la salud laboral y la crisis climática en nuestro evento en línea "La salud laboral en la crisis climática", una iniciativa conjunta de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Salud Ambiental (SIBSA) y la Alianza Global por el Clima y la Salud (GCHA). Este 2 de mayo, únete a profesionales de la salud, ocupacionales y ambientales de toda Latinoamérica y el Caribe para explorar los desafíos y oportunidades que el cambio climático presenta para la salud ocupacional. Desde los impactos del calor en poblaciones rurales hasta la salud mental de trabajadores de la salud y la seguridad de brigadistas en incendios forestales, nuestro panel de expertos internacionales ofrecerá insights cruciales y soluciones prácticas. No pierdas la oportunidad de contribuir a la conversación y ayudar a moldear un futuro más sostenible y saludable para todos.
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Discover the connections between occupational health and the climate crisis at our online event "Occupational Health in the Climate Crisis," a joint initiative by the Ibero-American Society for Environmental Health (SIBSA) and the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA). This May 2nd, join health, occupational, and environmental professionals from across Latin America and the Caribbean to explore the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents for occupational health. From the impacts of heat on rural populations to the mental health of healthcare workers and the safety of firefighters in wildfires, our panel of international experts will offer crucial insights and practical solutions. Don't miss the opportunity to contribute to the conversation and help shape a more sustainable and healthy future for everyone.
A global event with experts and guest speakers from governments, employers and workers will discuss how to protect workers and respond to this global challenge.
En esta sesión organizada en conjunto por el Centro Regional Lancet Countdown Latinoamérica y el Instituto Interamericano para la Investigación del Cambio Global (IAI) se presentará por primera vez el reporte 2023 de Lancet Countdown Latinamérica y los proyectos de diplomacia científica desarrollados por los Fellows del Programa de Fellowship de ciencia, tecnología y políticas (STeP) del IAI. Nos gustaría invitar a autoridades nacionales y subnacionales, académicos, ONG y periodistas a acompañarnos. Durante el evento, discutiremos los principales hallazgos en materia de cambio climático y salud para la región, así como la importancia de generar evidencia científica para informar la política pública a nivel local y regional.
In this session, organized jointly by the Lancet Countdown Latin America Regional Center and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), the 2023 Lancet Countdown Latin America report will be presented for the first time, along with the scientific diplomacy projects developed by Fellows of the IAI's Science, Technology, and Policy Fellowship Program (STeP). We would like to invite national and subnational authorities, academics, NGOs, and journalists to join us. During the event, we will discuss the main findings regarding climate change and health for the region, as well as the importance of generating scientific evidence to inform public policy at the local and regional levels.
Advancing health and equity in the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region.
Discover how climate solutions aren’t just a necessity but an opportunity to create a healthier, more equitable future for the Genesee-Finger Lakes region.
How does climate change impact our health today, and what are the projected implications for the future? How can community resilience address these challenges?
What is the relationship between climate change and social determinants of health?
What role does the healthcare industry play in alleviating the impacts of climate change on public health?
How can equitable climate solutions improve health outcomes and quality of life for local residents?
The 3rd annual NIHHIS National meeting aims to bring together multiple stakeholders (federal agencies, state and local government, private and public partners, community leaders) to discuss heat and health with the goal of reducing risk on multiple timescales and geographic scales. This meeting is focused on engaging communities and developing a shared vision for community heat resilience. The three themes of the meeting include: Defining the Problem of Heat; Personal Exposure to Heat; and Community Action and Response to Heat.
Heat extremes are already one of the deadliest meteorological events and they are projected to increase in intensity and frequency due to rising CO2 emissions. Also, vulnerability and exposure of the events are likely to change, yet have to be assessed at a very local scale. The resulting risks of extreme heat events to society may increase dramatically with large regional differences, and society will need to adapt locally if the worst impacts are to be avoided. This session therefore welcomes a broad range of new research addressing the challenge of extreme heat and its impacts, with studies focusing on the Global South particularly welcome. Suitable contributions may: (i) assess definitions, the drivers and underlying processes of extreme heat in observations and/or models; (ii) explore the diverse socio-economic impacts of extreme heat events including vulnerability and exposure for example, on aspects relating to human health, economic productivity, or biodiversity; (iii) address forecasting and monitoring of extreme heat at seasonal to sub-seasonal time scales; (iv) focus on societal adaptation to extreme heat, including the implementation of anticipatory action, heat-health early warning systems, and effective heat adaptation and management solutions; (v) introduce transdisciplinary research frameworks to assess societal relevant heat extremes and their impacts.
The EGU General Assembly 2024 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 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change draws on the expertise of 15 institutions from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam to provide the most up to date assessment of climate and health in Australia. Join us on 9 April 2024 as esteemed speakers discuss the key findings and recommendations for action. The event is hosted by the Heat and Health Research Incubator at The University of Sydney. Further exciting speakers will be announced soon.
On 19-21 March 2024, Connecting Climate Minds stakeholders will come together in person in Barbados to finalise the Global Research and Action Agenda. We will also celebrate the communities that have been built and the past year’s tremendous work by the Regional Community Convenors, Lived Experience Working Group, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Imperial’s Climate Cares Centre.
All are invited to join the event virtually to learn about the project outcomes, listen to presentations from our regional communities, youth, smallholder farmers/fisher people and indigenous communities on their findings, and connect with others joining the global climate change and mental health community.
IDRC is providing preliminary information on this funding opportunity to allow applicants time to prepare their applications. The funding opportunity will be launched on February 19, 2024. Through the anticipated call, up to five institutions will be funded to establish regional hubs in the Global South. These hubs will initiate and manage research sub-grants in West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa.
A virtual Q&A webinar will be held on Thursday, March 7, 2024, from 8:00-9:30 a.m. EST/3:00-4:30 p.m. CAT in English with simultaneous French interpretation. For webinar registration assistance, please email globalhealth@idrc.ca. For all other inquiries related to this funding opportunity, please email health-CLIMAT-sante@idrc.ca.
Climate change poses an urgent challenge and opportunity for public health preparedness in Connecticut and around the world. Faced with growing climate-related health risks from heat, extreme events, vector-borne diseases, and air pollution, Connecticut is taking action to ensure all residents are safe, healthy, and resilient in a changing climate. Join the inaugural Connecticut Symposium on Climate Change and Health to learn about the health impacts of climate change in Connecticut and how the state is rising to the challenge through evidence-based initiatives, strategic partnerships, and multisectoral collaboration – and how you can get involved.
Presenters will include representatives of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and interact with the presenters. The agenda will be posted here by late February.
Join us on 29 February at 12pm, at the Grantham Institute Boardroom, South Kensington (see Grantham Institute map) or online, as part of Sustainability Fortnight, to hear from our Climate Cares panellists and to discuss the mental health impacts of the climate crisis and the solutions that can create a world better for our climate and our minds.
On February 29th, the National Integrated Health Information System (NIHHIS) will continue its Overlooked and Overburdened Webinar Series, which focuses on populations that are disproportionately at risk of heat illness or death but often overlooked in treatment and resilience strategies. Each session provides a deep background level of understanding on the group and what mechanisms contribute to their heightened risk, as well as solutions to address those mechanisms.
This session of the series will focus on extreme heat and homelessness. Speakers from federal agencies, city groups, and community organizations will discuss topics such as the current state of homelessness in the U.S., reasons people experiencing homelessness are at risk of heat-related illness and death, and strategies communities have used to better support this population during heat events. There will be time for Q&A, and resources will be shared to help address heat risk in these groups.
The event will take place on Thursday, 2/29 from 3:00-4:30 pm EST. An American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter will be available for translation throughout the webinar.
Cities are experiencing extreme temperature increases at twice the global average rate due to the climate change exacerbated by the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE). Over 800 million urban residents globally are at high risk of adverse health effects, some of losing their lives due to a lack of access to sustainable solutions to keep buildings and neighbourhoods cool and adequate for living. Ensuring cool indoor and outdoor environment is therefore indispensable to healthy urban life. However, high and increasing energy consumption for space cooling leads to higher GHG emissions. To address this, passive cooling - a practice of using non-mechanical technology, design elements, and nature-based solutions to keep buildings and cities cool without using energy - is a fundamental solution.
This role is funded by the research programme on Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) - a £30 million 15-year investment by the University of Reading, in partnership with the European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts (ECMWF), the UK Met Office and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. AFESP will deliver sustained investments to tackle some of the far-term (10–15 year) and difficult (high-risk, high-reward) research challenges in global Earth System prediction. URBANE contributes to the overall goals of the AFESP programme, primarily in the theme of Challenges and opportunities in simulating the Earth System at the kilometre-scale.
Join us on February 26th at NYAM for a full-day symposium addressing the critical challenges our healthcare and public health systems face in the wake of COVID-19 and the escalating climate change crisis. This session is a call to action to collaboratively reimagine health to better support our systems, workforce, and communities.
The NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) solicits proposals that support communities in building their resilience to climate impacts through the application of NASA Earth observations. The focus of proposals must be on informing decisions that enhance community-level resilience to episodic and chronic climate stressors. Projects may be up to 3 years, and it is anticipated that 7-9 awards will be made with a total yearly budget of $2M.
This call for proposals aims to increase the use of NASA Earth observations to support community resilience, expand the communities of practice who use NASA Earth observations to develop climate-informed community resilience decisions, demonstrate the value of using NASA Earth observations to prepare for and respond to climate change, and inform NASA’s future strategic engagement and activities on climate resilience.
Proposals must engage communities in advancing climate-informed decisions that enhance their resilience to the impacts of climate change and involve organizations that assist in knowledge sharing between scientists and decision makers.
Given the growing awareness of the negative impacts of extreme heat on human physical and mental health, Wellcome has initiated funding to help increase knowledge of these impacts and evaluate potential solutions. However, there remain gaps in our knowledge of when and why heat is so detrimental to human health and this knowledge could help us improve current interventions and identify new ones. Biomedical and biotechnical scientists (including immunologists, geneticists, engineers, biometeorologists, data scientists and others) are starting to develop innovative solutions to the impacts of extreme heat on human health but these entrepreneurial efforts are nascent and scattered.
Wellcome is interested in learning where investment opportunities may lie for further innovation at this intersection. Ultimately, we are seeking to identify opportunities for protecting communities from extreme heat through biomedical and biotechnological innovation. For example, risk indicators, diagnostics and protective measures.
This high-level conference will bring together researchers, policymakers and relevant stakeholders to reflect on the research needs in the field of climate change and human health.
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, is Director of the Urban Health Collaborative and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. From 2014 to 2023 she was the Dana and David Dornsife Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health. Originally trained as a pediatrician in her native Buenos Aires, she completed public health training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Diez Roux is internationally known for her research on the social determinants of population health and the study of how neighborhood physical and social environments affect health. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, psychosocial factors, social environment-gene interactions, environmental health effects, urban health, and the use of multilevel methods and complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America and is currently Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust-funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina/Urban Health in Latin America Study) study and the NIH-funded Drexel Center on Climate Change and Urban Health (CCUH).
Call for 2024 Presentations is Open through Feb. 14
Lightning talks and discussions around rich media online posters are the centerpiece of this event and the format for you to share your work. There will be live poster discussion sessions each day of the conference that will provide an opportunity for extended conversations between poster presenters and attendees as well as asynchronous engagement via a virtual event space.
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health will host the 2024 Annual Meeting: From the Clinic to the Capitol in person and virtually on February 11-12, 2024, with in-person visits to Congress on February 13. In this pivotal year for climate action, we’ve invited over 10 climate and health organizations to join us in planning as we build a powerful, collective health professional movement for change. Early bird pricing for in-person registration and discounts for Consortium members are available.
We are excited to be joined by featured speakers Mustafa Santiago Ali, Executive Vice President of Conservation & Justice for the National Wildlife Federation, and Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel for Our Children’s Trust and one of Time’s 100 Top Influential Climate Leaders.
During the webinar we want to explore the following questions:
How can heat protection and reduction of air pollution (including from wildfires) be included in heat health action planning
What needs to be considered when adapting heat health action planning to local contexts (e.g. heat health interaction, demography, social inequality, topography & city-planning)?
Which stakeholders and sectors should be involved?
What are effective measures for developing a climate-resilient low-emission city and how can these be integrated into a regional or local heat-health action plan?
Welcome to the 104th AMS Annual Meeting to be held from 28 January to 1 February 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Baltimore Convention Center. Baltimore is a vibrant and diverse city that seamlessly blends a rich history with a thriving contemporary culture. With its historic neighborhoods, world-class museums, and a bustling waterfront, we hope you are as excited as we are to be visiting “Charm City.” This 104th Annual Meeting and our theme "Living in a Changing Environment" have come together thanks to the hard work of the Overall Planning Committee and AMS staff.
Apply by 5PM ET on January 31st, 2024 to be part of the next group of communities mapping heat distrubition across their neighborhoods. The application is open to domestic and international applications.
Before submitting an application, make sure to check out the FAQ section to learn more about the funding process, lead organizer information, and more.
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), in partnership with Climate Adaptation Planning and Analytics (CAPA) Strategies, will accept domestic and international applications for the 2024 NIHHIS-CAPA Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns. Pending the availability of funds for FY24 (see FAQ for more details), and the amount of matching funds provided by communities, we anticipate being able to support campaigns in approximately 5 to 10 communities.
In 2025 Cityscape intends to publish several articles in a symposium on how to cool cities or mitigate the impacts of extreme heat, especially its impacts on low- and moderate-income workers and residents and socially vulnerable groups. Papers may be from any discipline but should be intelligible to a multidisciplinary audience. Articles must be original work not published elsewhere.
Vulnerable populations in urban areas are experiencing the deadly impacts of extreme heat events like never before. Facing rapidly rising temperatures, leading experts from around the world will highlight both nature-based and people-based solutions and opportunities that can make a difference at the local level to reduce the impacts of extreme heat.
This COP28 side event co-hosted by GHHIN, UN-Habitat, Red Cross Climate Centre, ICLEI, WMO, Arbor Day Foundation, and NRDC explored nature-based and people-based solutions and opportunities that can make a difference at the local level to reduce the impacts of extreme heat.
A panel session showcased:
Opportunities for the scaling up of heat preparedness and early warning
People-centered policies and behaviors for health protection, particularly indoor heat and heat action plans.
Nature-based solutions and other city planning interventions that impact how heat is experienced through changes to urban landscapes, building designs, and green spaces
Policy and regulatory solutions that can support the implementation of both nature-based and people-centered heat reduction solutions.
Speakers:
Moderator: Ashley Ward, Duke University, Heat Policy Innovation Hub (USA)
Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Global Heat Health Information Network, WHO-WMO Joint Office for Climate and Health
Naomi Hoogervorst, UN-HABITAT
Shri Krishna S. Vatsa, National Disaster Management Authority - Government of India
Abhiyant Tiwari, NRDC India
Shaban Mawanda, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
COP28 is expected to lift the political profile of the climate-health nexus, and mainstream health in the global climate change agenda. The overall Health Programme is currently under development, and more information will be made available soon.
COP28 in collaboration with WHO and other main partners will organise the first ever Health day and climate-health ministerial. Moreover, for the third time, WHO and Wellcome Trust will host COP28 Health Pavilion. This will generate a watershed moment for climate and health, convening a wide variety of actors including ministers, climate and health professionals, civil society organisations, youth representatives and business, and will bring the climate-health agenda into the mainstream. WHO in partnership with members of the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate Change and Health (ATACH) will continue promoting commitments to building climate resilient and sustainable low carbon health systems.
Ahead of COP28, the online course "Climate Change Negotiations and Health" will be updated with content relevant specifically to the upcoming negotiations. The online course features key information on climate change and its impacts on human health, provides an overview of the climate change negotiations so far, and considers entry points to address health issues and priorities within climate change negotiations and policies.
WHO in close collaboration with the health community will also prepare submissions and statements to address key health-relevant issues under negotiations at COP28 and provide support to negotiators on how to include health in different negotiating streams.
For more information on the COP28 UAE Presidency's vision, please refer to the official Letter to Parties from the COP President-Designate, UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaberhere.
This session will discuss projects that are being undertaken at city level to reduce both air pollution and GHG emissions, focusing on best practice policies and highlighting the importance of partnerships between cities and other stakeholders to ensure these practices are more widely promoted and taken up
Our Focus: Health Benefits as a Pathway to Move from Climate Ambition to Climate Action
The overall aim of the workshop is to efficiently and effectively disseminate knowledge of health co-benefits, and their great potential when incorporated into climate action and negotiations at the COP, as well as to identify transdisciplinary, practicable policy-feasible ways of enactment in day-to-day government decision-making. To achieve this, the purposes of this Workshop would be multiple. First, we propose to hold this meeting in the week prior to the Conference of Parties (COP28) Climate conference to be held in the UAE at the end of November, 2023.
Room 401, Susan Wakil Health Building, The University of Sydney, Western Avenue, Camperdown NSW, Australia
Nov 16, 2023
Heat and Health Research Incubator 2023-2024 Summit SeriesExtreme Heat: Maternal and Child Health
Join us for an exciting event focused on maternal and child health as part of the Heat and Health Research Incubator Summit Series. This in-person event will be held at the Susan Wakil Health Building, The University of Sydney, located at Western Avenue, Camperdown NSW, Australia.
The guest speakers include:
Professor Jane Hirst – Professor in Global Women’s Health at Imperial College London & the George Institute for Global Health
Professor Adrienne Gordon – Clinical Professor and Neonatologist at RPA & The University of Sydney
Professor Camille Raynes-Greenow – Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology & Public Health at The University of Sydney
Dr James Smallcombe – Senior Post-doctoral researcher & Maternal & Child Health Theme Leader in the Heat & Health Research Incubator
Light refreshments will be provided.
The 2023 Report of the Lancet Countdown draws on the expertise of 114 climate and health scientists, engineers, economists, political scientists, public health professionals and doctors from 52 research institutions and UN agencies from around the world to provide its most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment yet of the state of health and climate change globally.It will be launched ahead of the 28th UN Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28), which will – for the first time – feature health as a key theme, with an official Health Day and a climate-health ministerial. Our report contributes to the evidence needed to inform the negotiations, and deliver truly health-protecting climate change action. The virtual global launch of the 2023 Report of the Lancet Countdown will take place from 14:00 GMT on 15 November and will bring together a diverse group of inspiring speakers and guests including world leaders, technical experts, young activists and those experiencing first-hand the effects of our heating world.We look forward to seeing you at the event.
The first global stocktake will conclude at COP28 in UAE in December of this year. The stocktake offers a unique opportunity to call for decisive change. It is an opportunity to urgently respond to the need to accelerate progress by collectively embarking on a swift and profound transformation of our economic and social systems.
APCW 2023 and all the Regional Climate Weeks provide a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to exchange on climate solutions, barriers to overcome and opportunities realized in different regions.
The Climate Weeks consider four major systems-based tracks with a view to providing region-focused contributions to inform the global stocktake:
Energy systems and industry
Cities, urban and rural settlements, infrastructure and transport
The 2023 State of Climate Services Report, prepared by WMO and 32 partners organizations and initiatives, highlights progress made in climate services for health globally and identifies where and how governments can invest in effective climate services to strengthen countries' resilience to multiple weather, water, and climate-related hazards.
Bringing together both implementing and funding organizations, the launch event will present the report's findings and lessons learned to help countries, funding agencies and development partners assess which are the steps needed to address gaps in the health climate services value chain to achieve greater resilience, improve adaptation/mitigation and development outcomes. The event will also highlight examples of how climate services contribute to improved socio-economic outcomes, showcasing real-world climate services examples for the health sector.
The event will be opened by Dr Paul Egerton, Director-Cabinet, WMO, followed by opening remarks by Prof Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of WMO, and a high-level intervention by Dr Maria Neira, Director, Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department, World Health Organisation. The event will be moderated by Dr Paul Egerton. The event will conclude with a panel discussion and Q&A session.
The 5th call opens from 1 November 2023 until 31 January 2024.
The fifth Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) official selection of about 90 short films will be presented to the public in April 2024 via the WHO YouTube channel and WHO Health for All Film Festival homepage. Winners from this selection will be announced by mid-May 2024.
As for each previous edition, we invite public health institutions from around the world, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), communities, activists and students in public health, film schools, and other relevant domains to submit their original short films championing a health issue. Independent filmmakers, production companies, and TV broadcasters are also invited to participate.
Dr. Kwong will present plans for an upcoming research project in Bangladesh that she is conducting on heat stress in collaboration with Alejandro Schuler (epi) and Carlos Duarte (Center for the Built Environment). The goal of the study is to 1) quantify heat stress among women of child-bearing age, men, and children in low-income, informal communities and pregnant women in rural communities and 2) test interventions to reduce indoor heat and reductions in heart rate variation associated with elevated heat. She looks forward to your feedback on how to extend the study and is excited to collaborate with others who would like to use the research platform to answer additional research questions.
The general theme of the ICUC-11 conference is “Cities as Living Labs: Climate, Vulnerability, and Multidisciplinary Solutions.” Accordingly, the organizing committee has identified six scientific streams for ICUC11, with each stream covering various sessions and plenaries. These streams include: Urban climate processes; Urban climate methods; Biometeorology & health; Integrated assessments of urban climate; Climate-conscious design and sustainable development; Urban climate policy.
The US National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) Interagency Communications Group will be holding the 2nd annual mid-season heat safety awareness social media campaign from July 17-August 18. This upcoming campaign is a federal collaboration on heat communication to raise awareness about the risk of extreme heat, and to provide audiences with information about preparedness and actions to take to prevent heat-related illnesses and death.
High outdoor temperatures are already experienced by many populations, but heat risks have been poorly quantified for some regions and vulnerable groups, including pregnant women and children. Heat exposures are currently not considered within the guidance for maternal and newborn care, but pregnant women are increasingly being recognised as an at-risk group within Heat Health Action Plans. This seminar will give an overview of the findings of research undertaken by the CHAMNHA research collaboration. The findings can be used to inform planning for response measures, including climate services. The CHAMNHA research consortium has an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. Cherie Part will present results from epidemiological studies to improve understanding of heat risks in vulnerable populations. Adelaide Lusambili will discuss the findings of the qualitative research undertaken in Kilifi, Kenya, to understand the experience of pregnant and postpartum women, as well as family members, community health workers and community leaders. Co-design was used to develop behaviour change interventions that have been evaluated for feasibility.
The goal of this course is to equip healthcare practitioners and students, health systems planners, public health officials, and others interested in planetary health with the knowledge and tools needed to prepare for the impact of climate change on health.
Tuesday, June 6 | Introduction to Climate and Health
Thursday, June 8 | Extreme Weather Events and Disasters
Tuesday, June 13 | Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
Thursday, June 15 | Climate Change and Non-communicable Diseases
Tuesday, June 20 | Climate Change and Mental Health
Thursday, June 22 | Climate Smart Health Care 1: Mitigation and Sustainability
Tuesday, June 27 | Climate Smart Health Care 2: Adaptation and Resilience
Thursday, June 29 | Climate Leadership and Advocacy
Biometeorology is focused on how atmospheric processes across multiple scales impact plant, human, and animal health and well-being. It is thus intrinsically connected to all aspects of urban and global sustainability. We encourage abstract submission on topics including aerobiology, agriculture, air pollution, extreme heat and cold, phenology, forests, animal well-being, urban climate, epidemiology, among others.
Join the global conversation on the impacts of extreme heat, preparing for a warmer world, and innovative solutions to address heat risks to human health.
This webinar will focus on research results of select heat-related projects funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Climate and Societal Interaction (CSI) Division’s International Research and Applications Program (IRAP) from FY18 - 20.
The growing wealth of lessons, outcomes, experience and evidence, gathered over more than eight years of implementing anticipatory action, will be under the spotlight at this year’s event. Over three days, participants will look back at what we have learned so far and discuss where we need to go next – as captured by this year’s overarching theme, ‘Lessons from anticipatory action: are we getting it right?’.
The theme of the 5th Planetary Health Annual Meeting is Building the Field and Growing the Movement.
All are invited to this virtual convening of scientists, youth, policymakers, educators, private sector, artists, and more to learn about the complexities of planetary health science, find community, seek solutions, and build skills for action and change!
This webinar will focus on 4 projects taking place across the country aiming to work with communities to understand the impacts of extreme heat, to observe and model the drivers of those impacts, and to ultimately help local decision makers make informed decisions about how to mitigate heat risk now and for the future.
The Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast - A NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Project Presents the Green Infrastructure, Climate, and Cities Seminar Series. The talks focus on urban solutions to global problems associated with increasing temperature and sea level rise, precipitation variability and greenhouse gas emissions.
The US Forest Service Urban Forest Connections webinar will discuss an innovative, community-driven, and collaborative network of nonprofits and scientists that seeks to increase tree canopy in neighborhoods shown to be hotter through a novel urban heat island assessment methodology.
A four-part advanced webinar will build on ARSET’s urban heat island training held in November 2020 with hands-on exercises to measure UHI and construct HVIs for their areas of interest.
The UN General Assembly recognizes the Global Platform as the global multi-stakeholder forum to review progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the Platform, governments, the UN system and all stakeholders get together to share knowledge and discuss the latest developments and trends in reducing disaster risk, identify gaps and make recommendations to further accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework. The seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be organized and convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and hosted by the Government of Indonesia.
We invite you to join us for an open discussion on International Heat and Health at the NIHHIS National Meeting. The virtual coffee hour discussion on April 28th from 12:00-12:30 PM EDT will be hosted by the Global Heat Health Information System (GHHIN), and will prelude Day 3 of the NIHHIS National Meeting. The discussion will be moderated by members of GHHIN and focus on how GHHIN and other international institutions and organizations are addressing heat health, with hopes of providing resources and strengthening the international network on heat and health.
This coffee discussion is open to anyone who registers for the NIHHIS National Meeting, and is held through the Zoom for Government platform. International organizations and institutions are especially encouraged to attend. Registration for the coffee hour discussion can be accessed by the same link received after registering for the NIHHIS National Meeting.
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) national meeting will bring together multiple stakeholders (federal agencies, state and local government, private and public partners, community leaders) to discuss heat and health with the goal of reducing risk on multiple timescales and geographic scales. This meeting is focused on engaging communities and developing a shared vision for community heat resilience. Registration and the call for abstracts coming soon.
This Masterclass will introduce the importance of health inclusivity in in heat action planning, and cover the key components of a heat health action plan.
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Extreme hydrometeorological events are affecting societies, economies and environments as never before in human history. Governments, science agencies, the humanitarian sector, emergency managers and decision-makers face an unprecedented challenge to reduce the risks to citizens and society.
The Societal and Economics Research Application (SERA) Working Group of the WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) invites the weather community to actively participate in the first Weather and Society Conference organised by this Programme.
The focus of the Conference is the science for services approach adopted by the World Meteorological Organization to understand, analyse and enhance the value of weather and climate services in society.
The 5-day scientific program will include plenary, semi-plenary, special and oral sessions, the global policy forum, and interactive poster sessions. The program will combine live-streamed and pre-recorded sessions that will be scheduled in two different time zones (Rome stage and Melbourne stage). In addition, all sessions will be made available on-demand for the delegates to watch at a convenient time. Special sessions, oral free papers and poster sessions will provide interactive discussion among participants and presenters through live chats available during the Congress. The 37 ICOH Scientific Committees, covering the full range of OSH fields, are contributing an exciting range of topics and speakers to lead the scientific program. An outstanding faculty of Plenary speakers from across the globe will lead these discussions and participants are invited to play an active role in the scientific program by submitting an abstract for consideration in the highly regarded oral and poster presentations. Accepted abstracts will be published in an online supplement of Safety and Health at Work (SH@W).
Save the date for the South Asia Heat Health Information Network's (SAHHIN) fourth global masterclass on ‘Heat Early Warning Systems-Scientific Approaches for Estimating Thresholds’ with Abhiyant Tiwari, on 28th October 2021 (4.30 pm -5.30 pm IST).
Hosted by IRADe and supported by IDRC / CRDI, Canada, this masterclass will deliberate on the importance of temperature thresholds in heat early warning systems, along with various options and best in use scientific analytical methods available for deriving such temperature thresholds. It will also discuss the issues and constraints in policy decision-making in setting threshold temperature for heat early warning systems.
One of the most popular interventions is planting trees, and creating accessible green spaces and water features to mitigate heat, long term. This session will cover tree canopy assessment, planting and cooling strategies, combined with strengthening community cohesion and resiliency. Threaded throughout is the intersection with environmental justice, public health, crime reduction, and equitable approaches to improvements that benefit current residents.
This summer, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and its partners are hosting a webinar series to feature community case studies on what happens after Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns are conducted. Each webinar will be themed to follow the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit’s (CRT) Steps to Resilience framework and how cities are working to address extreme heat risk. Sessions will be added throughout the summer as they are scheduled. See here for the most up to date information.
Webinar 1: Exploring the Heat Hazard
Webinar 2: Constructing Heat Vulnerability Indices
Webinar 3: Investigate Options 1 - The power of the Pen: Policies, Standards, Codes etc...
This session will feature communities that have implemented solutions to make their built environment cooler and more resilient to heat. A common action to manage urban heat risk is increasing the albedo of surfaces - rooftops, streets, sidewalks, and walls - but cities have a variety of options to choose from to provide indoor and outdoor thermal comfort. The session will provide resources and suggestions for participants just getting started thinking about which cool solutions in the built environment can be part of their portfolio of actions to mitigate urban heat risk.
This webinar will discuss the current status and future directions in using remote sensing in urban climate research. It will explore the growing use of thermal remote sensing in urban climate research while detailing fundamental definitions and applications of this methodology.
Agenda:
"Challenges of global SUHI analysis " by Professor Benjamin Bechtel (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Benjamin Bechtel holds a professorship in Urban Climatology at the Department of Geography, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Before he was a Research Associate with the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, University of Hamburg. His research interests include crowdsourcing and urban remote sensing, in particular, the characterization of urban surfaces and thermal remote sensing for applications in urban climatology. Dr. Bechtel received the dissertation award 2013 for physical geography of the Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH) for his Ph.D. thesis on “Remote sensing of urban canopy parameters for enhanced modelling and climate-related classification of urban structures”; his habilitation was on “Advancements in urban- and topoclimatic observations and modelling – Remote Sensing, Crowd-Sourcing and Data Fusion”. He serves as a board member of the International Association for Urban Climate, as a steering committee member of the Belgian research project REACT, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Remote Sensing, and as a reviewer and guest editor for several international journals and funding agencies.
"(In)complete urban surface temperatures " by Professor James Voogt (University of Western Ontario)
James Voogt is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada. He is an urban climatologist who specializes in the measurement and modelling of urban surface temperatures. He received his BSc in 1986 from Queen’s University and MSc (1989) and PhD (1995) from the University of British Columbia. He has contributed to research projects on understanding the three dimensional surface temperature of cities, thermal anisotropy over urban areas, the use of remotely sensed surface temperatures in urban climate model evaluation, the climate performance of green roofs, and spatial variations in the heat impacts on urban residents. Dr. Voogt is a past president of the International Association for Urban Climate and a co-author of the text ‘Urban Climates’ published by Cambridge University Press.
Facilitated Q&A and discussions.
The webinar will be recorded and shared with the community so that people who are unavailable or in inconvenient time zones are able to follow the presentations and discussion.
Early Warning Systems (EWS) for heatwaves are a critical component of an effective Heat Action Plan (HAP). Early prediction and warning of heat alerts are important adaptation measures for increasing the preparedness of the agencies/stakeholders involved in the implementation of HAPs.
The South Asia Heat Health Information Network (SAHHIN) invites you to its upcoming Global Masterclass on ‘ Early Warning Systems for Heat Stress Management’ by expert Prof. Ajit Tyagi, Senior Advisor, IRADe & Former DG, India Meteorological Department, GoI. The masterclass will brief about the importance of EWS, the range of EWS, and their role in HAPs.
The IPCC AR6 states that it is virtually certain that hot extremes (including heatwaves) have become more frequent and more intense across most land regions. With the forecast of increased frequency and intensity of heatwaves due to climate change in the future, the heat stress action plans are key to city adaptation strategies. This master class is an introduction to design Climate Adaptive Heat Action Plans which will enable the cities to efficiently prepare, mitigate and adapt to the heat stress-induced by climate change.
The South Asia Heat Health Information Network (SAHHIN) is pleased to invite you to its upcoming Global Master Class on ‘Climate Adaptive Heat Action Plans’ by expert Mr. Rohit Magotra, Deputy Director, IRADe.
This masterclass will provide an understanding of Heat Action Plan features, along with identification and mapping of heat hot spots/urban heat islands and developing heat adaptation strategies for managing heat stress for cities.
Session 1: Health09:00— 10:30EDT (13:00 — 14:30 UTC)Speakers: Ben Zaitchik, Pablo Mendez-Lazaro, John Malone, Kim Portmess, Cascade Tuholske, Ana Watson
Emerging global health challenges – such as poor air and water quality, spread of infectious diseases (including COVID-19), extreme heat temperatures, and unprepared health systems – should be a leading priority in the upcoming decade. Earth observation data offer real-time information for scientists and stakeholders to examine the impact of these environmental risks on human and animal health, and ultimately enhance community health decision-making. By building these One Health networks, the global workforce can leverage expertise and incorporate innovative data and technology to enhance community response efforts that protect population health.
Join us on 24 August when the Lancet Series on Heat and Health will be presented by the authors, and an expert panel will reflect on the implications of the Series for public health practice and public policy.
Mapping the heat hazard is an important first step to understanding where to start addressing heat health issues in a city, but risk also involves exposure and vulnerability. This session will feature communities that have taken the next step after a UHI mapping program to factor in population, demographics, and health information to detail where the most at-risk residents live, to characterize their risk factors, and to guide appropriate interventions to manage those risks.
This summer, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and its partners are hosting a webinar series to feature community case studies on what happens after Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns are conducted. Each webinar will be themed to follow the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit’s (CRT) Steps to Resilience framework and how cities are working to address extreme heat risk.
How is extreme heat experienced and how can it be measured? There are a variety of methods and approaches to measure heat, from satellites, mobile transects, stationary observations, to wearable sensors. Each can provide important information and context to the urban heat effect and its impact. Extreme heat is a subtle hazard that is felt differently across the nation. This session will highlight the range of experience of heat across the US.
The Southeast Climate monthly webinar series is held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 10:00 am ET. This series is hosted by the Southeast Regional Climate Center, in partnership with the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the NOAA National Weather Service. These webinars will provide the region with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics such as agriculture production, water resources, wildfires and ecosystems.
Upcoming Topical Presentations:
July 13th - New Climate Normals, Michael Palecki, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Aug 14th - Heat Risk Tools for the Southeast, Chip Konrad, Southeast Regional Climate Center
Sept 14th - Wildfire
Oct 12th - Hourly Precipitation Trends in the Southeast, Vincent Brown, LSU
Nov 9th - Winter Outlook
Dec 14th - TBD
This largest international nutrition conference in Asia is expected to attract more than 1000 participants around the world. The conference will have 18 symposia related to sports nutrition aiming to bring the latest discovery related how exercise training and nutrition improves human performance, metabolic condition, and aging. You’ll learn, network, engage and catch up with those as passionate about sports nutrition as you are.
This one-hour webinar will feature climate-related temperature trends particularly related to extreme heat and urban heat, human health effects, social vulnerability, and risks (happening now and looking into the future). The presentation will highlight information on observed U.S. trends from EPA’s Climate Change Indicators and future conditions based on EPA’s Climate Impacts and Risk Analysis efforts. The presentation will feature recent science on extreme heat and health impacts including from the U.S. Global Change Research Program and EPA research on climate vulnerability and heat islands.
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.*
“Reinventing Global Cities” is the second in a series of three high-profile events titled Post-COVID Cities, which focuses on the future of New York City following the pandemic. During this program, participants will learn how other global cities currently emerging from the pandemic are positioning themselves to reach aspirational social goals while implementing 21st-century zero-carbon policies.
Cities and Speakers:Paris – Hélène Chartier, Head of Zero Carbon Development, C40 Cities
London – Lucy Bullivant, PhD, Hon. FRIBA, Founder/Director, Lucy Bullivant Associates
Barcelona and Xiong’an – Vicente Guallart, Former Chief Architect, City of Barcelona; Founder, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC); Author, The Self-Sufficient City; Competition winner to design post-COVID, self-sufficient city in Xiong’an
Moderator:
Jeffrey Raven, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, Co-Chair, AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee; Founder, RAVEN A+U – Architecture + Urban Design; Assoc. Professor, NYIT SoAD
Please join us on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at 8am EDT / 2pm CEST for a webinar on the impact of heat waves during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons learned from summer 2020 by national public health institutes (NPHIs).
The webinar will feature NPHI case studies by Dr. Shubhayu Saha of the Climate and Health Section of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Werner Hagens, responsible for the Dutch Heatwaves Plan at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, and Owen Landeg of the Extreme Events and Health Protection Team at Public Health England.
A panel discussion will follow to discuss possible solutions and how to adapt public health practice to address the combined impact of heatwaves and COVID-19. Our panelists will be Dr. Geneviève Chêne, chief executive of Santé publique France, Céline Campagna, responsible for the Adaptation Plan to Climate Change at the National Public Health Institute of Quebec, Juli Trtanj of the Global Heat Health Information Network, and a panelist to be announced from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center. The session will be moderated by Prof. Duncan Selbie, president of IANPHI.
Thanks to support from U.S. CDC, IANPHI will offer live interpretation on Zoom in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Please let us know whether you will need interpretation by completing the relevant field on the Zoom registration page.
The year 2020 was one of the three warmest on record. This year, we must also brace ourselves for a long, hot summer as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the problems caused by prolonged periods of heat. This webinar looks at different areas of ongoing work on preventing the adverse health outcomes from heat through good public health practice. The session presents the latest scientific evidence related to effective heat health action planning and features case studies from European countries. WHO/Europe will present an update on its #KeepCool campaign and release a series of video clips to support communication with the public on heat health prevention.
This 3-part Masterclass will include a rapid review of what’s known about urban heat islands, and provide insights into considerations for choosing interventions to manage them.
As part of the Global Dialogue Platform for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action 2020, the session on "Extreme heat and COVID-19: Managing complex and cascading hazards" focused on the complexity of managing extreme heat and COVID-19 in 2020.
Drawing on global case studies and resources, speakers discussed the challenges of heat preparedness during the global pandemic, including the realities of what has been experienced at community level in several countries.
The session included brief presentations and a moderated panel discussion, along with interactive questions around heatwave risk management, and how to modify typical cooling interventions while respecting infection control efforts. Tools and approaches that can help guide local and national authorities to coordinate and adjust heat action plans and interventions, to incorporate COVID-19 prevention.
Hosted by Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Anticipation Hub.
Facilitator:- Roop Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Climate Risk Advisor
Speakers:- Elspeth Oppermann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Rachel Carson Centre), Senior Researcher
Towards the end of this extraordinary and - in so many ways - challenging year of 2020, it is our great pleasure to invite you to the 8th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action, which will take place virtually from 8th – 10th December 2020.
Facing a world in crisis, our anticipatory action community recognizes the importance to continue to learn and to grow. We want to invite you to join us to share experiences, learnings and challenges faced at this year’s Global Dialogue Platform, which has the theme: Collaborating for Climate, COVID-19 and Conflict: Getting Ahead of Crises with Anticipatory Action
Join online to discover new findings from the 2020 Report on the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. In total 120 world-leading experts, including authors from 35 academic institutions and UN agencies spanning every continent have looked at more than 40 indicators for the report.
The Understanding Risk (UR) Global Forum is a biennial conference that convenes experts and practitioners from all around the world to showcase the best practices and latest innovations in the field of disaster risk identification as well as to facilitate non-traditional interactions and partnerships.
The 2020 edition also marks the 10th anniversary of UR community, and we are celebrating its achievements and the advancements of the field during the past decade.
As part of the 2020 HIWeather workshop, a webinar series will be run by the HIWeather research project of the World Meteorological Organization. This is the fourth webinar focusing on the topic of multiscale hazard prediction. The webinar consists of six 15-minutes presentations and discussions following each presentation. You are cordially invited to join an international network of scientists to discuss progress and challenges related to hazard prediction and warning
This is the 3rd webinar in a series being run by the WMO's HIWeather research project. There will be four 15-minute presentations followed by a panel discussion, and plenty of time throughout for you to ask the speakers questions using the chat function.
November 10, 17, & 24, 202010:00-11:30 EST (Session A) or 16:00-17:30 EST (Session B)
The rapid growth of urban populations, the urban heat island (UHI) effect, and a potential increase in the frequency and duration of heat waves due to climate change, raise a series of issues about the increased health risks of sensitive urban populations to extreme heat and the effective means of mitigating impacts of heat waves. According to the US EPA, urban heat islands affect energy consumption, elevate greenhouse gas emissions, and impair water quality by increasing the temperature of urban water runoff. This will be ARSET's first training on UHI and will be in collaboration with the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN). This training will address the use of remote sensing in determining where "hot spots" of land surface temperature are located in urban areas, why these areas are experiencing increased temperature, which populations are most vulnerable, and ways to mitigate the effects through adaptive land use planning.
The Race to Zero Climate & Health Dialogue on November 9th 2020 will bring local to global actors together to place health and equity at the center of ambitious climate action. Through a series of virtual events, hosted throughout a 24-hour period, the dialogue will envision how a healthy, equitable recovery from COVID-19 can drive rapid decarbonization of the world economy.
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The climate & health dialogue will present initiatives, case-studies and interventions for a healthy, climate-resilient and climate-just future across several priority areas of action: Adaptation & resilience; Nature; Energy transition; Zero carbon road transport; and Finance.
This virtual event will take place on November 9, as a part of the November Race to Zero Dialogues organized by UNFCCC in partnership with the High-Level Climate Champions. It will pave the way to the 2021 Global Conference on Health and Climate Change and the COP26 UN climate change conference to be held in Glasgow, UK in November 2021.
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The event is organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with Race to Zero, the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), the Wellcome Trust, Glasgow Caledonian University and its Centre for Climate Justice, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, and the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Session speakers will include representatives from cities, regions, businesses and civil society from sectors such as health, biodiversity, transport, economy and energy, as well as scientists, policy makers, celebrities, local authorities and mayors, government representatives, representatives from vulnerable communities and youth leaders.
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For any questions regarding this event, please contact the WHO climate team.
This is the 2nd in a series of 5 webinars organized by the WMO's HIWeather research project.
A brief overview of the project's Impacts, Vulnerability & Risk (IVR) task team will be followed by four, 15-minute presentations (plus Q&A) and a general discussion. Questions will be administered through the chat function of MS Teams.
The Steering Committee of GHHIN will meet over two days to consider:
- Progress and activities of the Network in 2019-2020
- New emerging issues and opportunities
- Priority activities and tasks for 2021-22
- Updates of Network operations and governance
This is the 1st webinar in a series being run by the WMO's HIWeather research project. There will be four 10-minute presentations followed by a panel discussion, and plenty of time throughout for you to ask the panellists questions using the chat function.
The public lecture is scheduled to start at 7 PM EDT (doors open 6PM) followed by Q&A and virtual poster hall reception.
About the Lecture:
Extreme heat is deadlier than all other U.S. weather-related hazards combined, with risks increasing due to racial, social, and economic inequality, climate change, and increased development, which exacerbates the urban heat island effect. During this summer’s record-breaking temperatures, heat-health was at the forefront of the national conversation on climate risk, intersecting with and compounding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic and energy pressures. While research and modeling continue to advance understanding of the characteristics of heat in cities, translating this research into sustainability and resiliency policy, practice, and governance remains a challenge. NYC's experience makes a case for developing actionable science for decision making and the public interest and intentionally using health and climate data to achieve climate equity goals.
About the Speaker:
Kizzy Charles-Guzman is a Deputy Director at the New York City (NYC) Mayor’s Office of Sustainability where she leads the social and environmental policy team. For over a decade, she has engaged in citywide sustainability and resiliency planning efforts to ensure that social, public health and environmental justice priorities are integrated into climate action agendas and environmental policies. She led the development of Cool Neighborhoods NYC, the City’s first comprehensive strategy to address the impacts of rising temperatures and heat waves, and other equity-focused initiatives that ensure that NYC residents are ready to withstand and emerge stronger from the impacts of climate change. Kizzy also served as the Deputy Director for Social Resiliency at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency, and as Director of the Climate Change and Public Health Program at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, developing and implementing effective initiatives that support and promote NYC's environmental health. She received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Quality Award, and a Champion of Change Award from the U.S. White House in recognition of her work. She is a graduate of Carleton College and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She also teaches at New York University.
The Energy and Resources Institute will co-host the Adaptation Futures 2020 with the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP) in Delhi from 4 - 8 October 2021. It is the sixth in the Adaptation Futures international conference series on global adaptation and the first to be held in Asia. Adaptation Futures is the flagship event of the World Adaptation Science Program, which is one of the four components of World Climate Programme (WCP) based on the World Meteorological Organisation Congress XVI Resolution 18. As a premier event in the global adaptation spectrum, Adaptation Futures is a unique platform to facilitate dialogues towards action oriented solutions from a diverse range of stakeholders that includes academia, practitioners, scientists and policy makers from across the world.
This Dialogue provides a rapid tour through key recent developments in the world of occupational heat health. Held on 29 July 2020, the dialogue consisted of updates from a panel of three experts and practitioners on the state of the science, new research outcomes into often overlooked worker populations, and practical interventions into occupational heat health in Europe, Central America and Vietnam. The presentations were followed by a facilitated panel discussion.
This Dialogue session provides a rapid tour through urban innovations in heat health. Held on 28 July 2020, the dialogue includes updates from a panel of five experts and practitioners on the state of the practice of increasing resilience to extreme heat across the world from their diverse perspectives of governance, planning, design, and vulnerable populations, and a facilitated panel discussion. Watch the full recording and download the presentations from the dialogue below.
Defining heatwave events and optimal public health heat alerting systems remains complex and challenging. Should they be impact-based, and what information is needed to make them so? If this information is unavailable, are climatological approaches alone effective? This masterclass will address these questions and provide insight to some of the practical and operational considerations that both meteorological services and public health agencies may need to take when either developing or improving existing heat health thresholds for action.
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The 2nd Global Heat Health Forum, originally scheduled for July 28-31 in Copenhagen, was replaced with virtual events in summer 2020 in lieu of the in-person Forum.
On 26 May 2020, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe hosted a webinar on preparing for hot weather during the COVID-19 outbreak. Further information on managing heat and COVID-19 is available in our information series.
The South Asia Heat Health Summit took place on 14 February 2020 in Pune, India, in conjunction with the International Conference on Climate Services 6. The Summit was co-organized by the Global Heat Health Information Network, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, IRADe, India Meteorological Department, Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences, WHO, WMO and IDRC to build capacity, promote sharing, and encourage evidence-based policy and actions to improve the management of extreme heat risks.
Outcomes and Presentations
The First Global Forum for Heat and Health took place in Hong Kong, China, from the 17-20 December 2018. As the inaugural global forum of the Global Heat Health Information Network, the event featured talks from leading experts on heat health science and implementation, and inform a global common agenda on heat and health. As well as engaging talks and content from experts in the field, the forum also featured an interactive segment with a focus on heat health communication.
Vulnerable populations in urban areas are experiencing the deadly impacts of extreme heat events like never before. Facing rapidly rising temperatures, leading experts from around the world will highlight both nature-based and people-based solutions and opportunities that can make a difference at the local level to reduce the impacts of extreme heat.
This COP28 side event co-hosted by GHHIN, UN-Habitat, Red Cross Climate Centre, ICLEI, WMO, Arbor Day Foundation, and NRDC explored nature-based and people-based solutions and opportunities that can make a difference at the local level to reduce the impacts of extreme heat.
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