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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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Innovative policy and finance

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton named Arsht-Rock Global Ambassador for Heat, Health, and Gender

Marking SEWA’s 50th anniversary, Arsht-Rock announces co-creation of the new Extreme Heat Income Insurance, a climate resilience tool to replace income lost to climate-driven extreme heat for women in the informal sector.

Cool Capital Stack

Innovative policy and finance

First-of-its-kind extreme heat microinsurance launched in India to protect women workers

Marking SEWA’s 50th anniversary, Arsht-Rock announces co-creation of the new Extreme Heat Income Insurance, a climate resilience tool to replace income lost to climate-driven extreme heat for women in the informal sector.

Cool Capital Stack

Arsht-Rock launches Resilience Hub Network strategy for Miami-Dade County

The creation of a robust network of hubs will support communities prepare for and respond to climate change and natural disasters.

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.

Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance

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.

Cool Capital Stack

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.

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Africa’s first ‘heat inspector’ battles Sierra Leone’s climate crisis

Nina White, February 6 2023

NGO ropes in SHGs to transform concrete terraces into green spaces in Chennai

K. Lakshmi, January 28 2023

This city shouldn’t be here

Aitor Hernández-Morales, Giovanna Coi, January 26 2023

Climate change: How to shift from disaster recovery to prevention, resilience and risk reduction

Julian Enoizi, January 6 2023

She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable?

Elian Peltier, January 6 2023

Miami-Dade unveils plan to combat extreme heat

Jesse Scheckner, December 21 2022

Virtual reality games offer visceral taste of a climate-changed future

Laurie Georing, December 8 2022

After COP27, all signs point to world blowing past 1.5 degrees global warming limit

Peter Schlosser, November 26 2022

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

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Geraldine Henrich-Koenis

Director, Communications

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Kathy Baughman McLeod

Director, Arsht-Rock

Jorge Gastelumendi

Director, Global Policy

Rosemary Mann

Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

Eleni Myrivili

Global Chief Heat Officer, UN Habitat & Arsht-Rock

Mauricio Rodas

Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador

Kurt Shickman

Director, Extreme Heat Initiative

Mary McBryde

Senior Advisor

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