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- In the spotlight
  - COP27
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The Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center media relations team connects journalists with our experts and their insights.

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U.S. Cities Hiring Chief Heat Officers To Combat Rising Temps

Chuck Todd, November 3 2022

Extreme Heat: What the Gulf Countries Can Teach the Rest of the World

Press Team, November 3 2022

How ‘chief heat officers’ keep cities cool as the world warms

Anastasia Moloney, November 9 2022

Greener Cities, Greener Living

Laura Millan, November 13 2022

Video games face a tough choice: Realistic graphics or sustainability

Lewis Gordon, October 26 2022

7 leaders share what’s needed now for climate action ahead of COP27

Linda Lacina, October 28 2022

Smithsonian Receives $10 Million Donation To Support Research and Education on Climate Resilience

Benjamin Marcus, Linda St.Thomas, October 31 2022

Living Cities: Talking heat — France goes dark — Barcelona’s green ambition

Aitor Hernández-Morales, November 3 2022

Meet the 7 Chief Heat Officers who are making their cities more resilient

Talib Visram, October 7 2022

Chief Heat Officers Face Rising Temperatures — and Expectations

Patrick Sisson, October 3 2022

2022 TIME100 NEXT: Eugenia Kargbo

Wanjira Mathai, September 28 2022

What the devastation from Hurricane Ian tell us about Florida’s building codes

October 6 2022

Extreme heat saps billions in productivity

Daniel Cusick, September 22 2022

Rising Temperatures Force Cities to Get Creative to Cool Off

Skip Descant, September 9 2022

California becomes first US state to begin ranking extreme heat wave events

Ashley R Williams, September 12 2022

What Do Video Gamers Think About Global Warming?

Anthony Leiserowitz et.al, August 30 2022

Arsht-Rock at COP27

Co-delivering solutions for a cooler future.

Arsht-Rock will be at COP27 to strengthen ties with the climate resilience community and foster collaboration to deliver adaptation solutions at scale. Our mission will be to share knowledge, tools, and innovative solutions to tackle extreme heat.

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Geraldine Henrich-Koenis

Director, Communications

Jessica Dabrowski

Deputy Director, Communications

Meet our experts

Kathy Baughman McLeod

Director, Arsht-Rock

Jorge Gastelumendi

Director, Global Policy

Rosemary Mann

Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

Eleni Myrivili

Senior Advisor, Arsht-Rock

Amit Prothi

Senior Advisor

Mauricio Rodas

Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador

Rebecca Scheurer

Director, Humanitarian Initiatives

Kurt Shickman

Director, Extreme Heat Initiative

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Arsht-Rock Announces Felipe Calderón, Former President of Mexico, as First Global Ambassador for Heat Action at COP27

Arsht-Rock announced that Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón will be the first-ever Global Ambassador for Heat Action to advance heat adaptation at an international scale.

Innovative policy and finance

Arsht-Rock Partners with Marsh McLennan and UN Climate Change High-Level Champions to Advance Insurance Sector Action on Climate Adaptation

Arsht-Rock partners with Marsh McLennan to help mobilize the insurance sector in support of the UN’s Race to Resilience by championing innovative disaster risk reduction initiatives.

Innovative policy and finance

Arsht-Rock Announces the Cool Capital Stack: A $750 million Investment Pipeline to Protect the World from Extreme Heat

Arsht-Rock announces the Cool Capital Stack at COP27 to address the urgent climate crisis of extreme heat with an aggregation of projects and technologies to protect people and local economies.

Nancy Pelosi and Kathy Castor talk climate and resilience with Arsht-Rock at COP27

The world is falling short of…

Innovative policy and finance

Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance

Arup, Mahila Housing Trust, and Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) join Arsht-Rock’s Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance

OCTOBER 24, 2022, Washington D.C.—Three new…

Chief Heat Officer

Melbourne, Australia, Lord Mayor Announces City’s First-ever Chief Heat Officers

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — 7 October, 2022…

Extreme heat will stifle cities’ economies for decades to come without decisive action

With extremely hot days set to double, even quintuple by 2050 in the Global South, new research quantifies economic and social impacts of heat in cities across the globe, identifies specific sectors, worker populations and neighborhoods at greatest risk today and tomorrow.

Economy & business

California Governor Newsom signs bill that will protect Californians from extreme heat

LOS ANGELES, USA — September 9, 2022 —…

Categorizing and naming heat waves

Categorizing and naming heat waves

Heat Wave Zoe: Seville Becomes First City in the World to Officially Name a Heat Wave

A severe heat wave isgripping Seville today with temperatures expected to exceed 42° C for the next several days.

Our top picks

‘”It’s silent and invisible”- Spanish city to name severe heat waves

Jack Quan, June 30 2022

U.S. cities test naming heat waves as a warning system, similar to hurricanes

June 13 2022

Every city needs a ‘chief heat officer’

Ryan Lenora Brown, June 23 2022

Heat waves could soon have names

Jennifer Kingson, June 7 2022

Santiago just appointed the first Chief Heat Officer in South America

Talib Visram; March 9, 2022

Climate Forward: A landmark scientific report is out. Threats are accelerating.

Somini Sengupta; March 1, 2022

California debates naming heatwaves to underscore deadly risk of extreme heat

Gabrielle Canon; March 1, 2022

How Miami became the most important city in America

Joel Stein; February 3, 2022

Will California go big on climate action? Here’s what lawmakers want

Sammy Roth; February 24, 2022

California moves toward launching nation’s first heat wave ranking system

Kasha Patel; December 1, 2021

Stop talking, start acting, says Africa’s first extreme heat official

Saeed Kamali Dehghan; November 15, 2021

In Spain, Seville hopes naming heat waves can save lives

Connor Donevan, Christopher Intagliata; October 19, 2021

How the World’s First Chief Heat Officer Plans to Keep Miamians Cool

Linda Poon; September 29, 2021

Rising heat is making it harder to work in the U.S.—and the economic costs will soar

Ciara Nugent; September 7, 2021

Extreme heat is extremely bad for the economy

Talib Visram; September 9, 2021

Our cities are on fire. Here’s what we can do about it.

Kathy Baughman McLeod, Eleni Myrivili; September 2, 2021

“Heat is the Grim Reaper that no one can see”: New report shows social and economic effects of record temps

Cara Korte; August 31, 2021

Hurricanes Get Names. What About Heat Waves?

Jenny Gross; August 25, 2021

Athens Is Only Getting Hotter. Its New ‘Chief Heat Officer’ Hopes to Cool It Down.

Jason Horowitz; August 21, 2021

Summer Is Hot, but This Is Abnormal

Kathy Baughman McLeod; June 26, 2021

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