31.01.2024

Webinar: Heat health action planning in cities

Welcome to a webinar on how we can protect citizens from heat and develop heat health action plans.

Register here for the zoom webinar.

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?

 

Speakers:

  • Kristin Aunan, CICERO Center for International Climate Research

  • Antonio Gasparrini, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

  • Francesca De' Donato, Lazio Regional Health Service in Rome, Italy:
    Heat health action planning in Europe - current evidence and gaps

  • Claire Slesinski, Helmholtz Munich: Social inequalities in exposure to heat stress in cities

Comments from relevant organisations, policy makers and city-agencies

  • Colin O'Hehir, Departement of Health, Ireland
     

Learning materials from the EXHAUSTION project

  • Through the project we have developed an application to monitor environmental conditions where you live – A presentation of Hackair by Draxis. 

  • Visualising Science for Impact, by Angela Morelli, InfoDesign Lab

     

Q&A with the audience

Summary & white paper