Urban cooling solutions can be deployed in the short term to help mitigate the risk of rising urban air
temperatures. This primer and its appendix, Cool City Case Studies: Reducing Urban Heat, provide
practical, actionable guidance and examples for implementers, policy makers, and planners tasked with
mitigating urban heat impacts. The report covers:

• the challenges of rising temperatures for cities, and for urban design more broadly
• actions and solutions that can be deployed at the building, community, and city levels to reduce
  excess heat and promote thermal comfort
• the benefits of an integrated deployment of urban cooling solutions at scale
• a framework for an inclusive process to develop urban cooling strategies
• the benefits of heat action plans to protect residents from periods of extreme temperatures
• examples, results, and recommendations from urban cooling policies and actions implemented
  around the world.