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High-Level Champions and Arsht-Rock mobilize the private financial sector to unlock climate adaptation and resilience finance and projects

The partnership will mobilize concrete actions and contributions by the private financial sector—particularly institutional investors, the insurance industry and the banking community.

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Dhaka North becomes the first city in Asia to appoint a Chief Heat Officer

Dhaka will join the ranks of Arsht-Rock’s Global Champions for Heat Action in one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

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Chief Heat Officer

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Elissavet Bargianni announced as new Chief Heat Officer for Athens, Greece

Bargianni succeeds Eleni Myrivili, who held the position since 2021, and is now the Global Chief Heat Officer for UN-Habitat.

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Categorizing and naming heat waves

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Arsht-Rock launches second year of categorizing and naming heat waves in Seville, Spain

proMETEO Seville, developed in collaboration with Arsht-Rock and a network of meteorological, scientific and academic partners links weather forecasts to health outcomes.

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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.

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

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Heat insurance offers climate change lifeline to poor workers

Gloria Dickie, Simon Jessop, Shivam Patel, April 21 2023

How are cities responding to extreme heat?

Al Jazeera, May 16 2023

Europe’s first chief heat officer warns our cities are not prepared for what’s coming

Alex Katsomitros, May 4 2023

What can we learn from Sierra Leone’s ‘Chief Heat Officer’?

BBC Sounds, May 16 2023

Sevilla se adelanta al verano y ya tiene nombre para sus futuras olas de calor

R.S., April 21 2023

Asia’s first ‘chief heat officer’ joins all-female squad tackling extreme temperatures around the world

Louise Boyle, May 3 2023

As Melbourne gets hotter, some suburbs suffer more than others

Cara Waters, March 18 2023

In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect

Katherine Unger Baillie, March 17 2023

Ideas We Should Steal: Chief Heat Officer

Diana Lind, April 20 2023

How extreme heat is impacting the U.S. and the world

Washington Post Live, February 14 2023

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

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High-Level Champions and Arsht-Rock mobilize the private financial sector to unlock climate adaptation and resilience finance and projects

Dhaka North becomes the first city in Asia to appoint a Chief Heat Officer

Elissavet Bargianni announced as new Chief Heat Officer for Athens, Greece

Arsht-Rock launches second year of categorizing and naming heat waves in Seville, Spain

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

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

Heat insurance offers climate change lifeline to poor workers

How are cities responding to extreme heat?

Europe’s first chief heat officer warns our cities are not prepared for what’s coming

What can we learn from Sierra Leone’s ‘Chief Heat Officer’?

Sevilla se adelanta al verano y ya tiene nombre para sus futuras olas de calor

Asia’s first ‘chief heat officer’ joins all-female squad tackling extreme temperatures around the world

As Melbourne gets hotter, some suburbs suffer more than others

In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect

Ideas We Should Steal: Chief Heat Officer

How extreme heat is impacting the U.S. and the world

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

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

This city shouldn’t be here

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

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

Miami-Dade unveils plan to combat extreme heat

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

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

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

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

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High-Level Champions and Arsht-Rock mobilize the private financial sector to unlock climate adaptation and resilience finance and projects

Dhaka North becomes the first city in Asia to appoint a Chief Heat Officer

Elissavet Bargianni announced as new Chief Heat Officer for Athens, Greece

Arsht-Rock launches second year of categorizing and naming heat waves in Seville, Spain

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

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

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

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Geraldine Henrich-Koenis

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Meet our experts

Kathy Baughman McLeod

Jorge Gastelumendi

Rosemary Mann

Eleni Myrivili

Mauricio Rodas

Kurt Shickman

Mary McBryde