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One Billion People More Resilient

Who we are
What we do
- Our Priorities
Resilience in action
Heat Action Platform

Resilience in action

Climate Resilience Center Solutions

Our resilience solutions protect communities, cities, and nations adapt to climate change—delivering impact now.

Featured projects and Initatives

City Champions for Heat Action

Arsht-Rock’s City Champions for Heat Action help advance the global agenda and local solutions for climate resilience.

Resilience in action

Categorizing and naming heat waves

Heat wave naming and categorizing will increase awareness of heat’s health risks and initiate local response to protect lives and livelihoods.

Resilience in action

Chief Heat Officers

Chief Heat Officers are city officials focused on delivering heat solutions to their residents.

Gaming technology

Climate Games Launchpad

The Climate Games Launchpad offers up to $30,000 in funding per team, as well as mentorship and expert and technical support for teams to build community resilience to the impacts of climate change through gameplay.

Gaming technology

Climate Games Portfolio

Explore our portfolio of climate games! Through our work with indie and AAA studios, our Center has over 10 games in the climate portfolio.

Individual and community resilience

Resilience in action

Community Resilience Pod

Arsht-Rock’s Community Resilience Pod is an immersive asset that empowers people and communities to prepare for and confront climate impacts.

Resilience in action

COP27: Key moments from Sharm El Sheikh

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

Innovative policy and finance solutions

COP Resilience Hub

Since its foundation in 2021, Arsht-Rock has served as managing partner of the COP Resilience Hub. The Hub is the recognized home of climate resilience and drives international conversations on climate adaptation and resilience.

Innovative policy and finance solutions

Extreme Heat Protection Initiative

The initiative reduces and transfers risk through a climate insurance that covers wages lost due to extreme heat for women in India.

Resilience in action

Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance

EHRA increases heat resilience in urban areas, focusing for on vulnerable populations.

Resilience in action

Freetown Market Shade Cover Project

Working with local vendors, Arsht-Rock has installed shading covers over three outdoor markets in Freetown, providing sustainable infrastructure that protects market women from the dangers of extreme heat.

Heat health early warning systems

Heat health early warning systems (HHEWS) can raise ambitions and inform critical public health responses that save lives around the world.

Gaming technology

Gaming Center of Excellence

Arsht-Rock’s Gaming Center of Excellence was developed to support game teams and studios as they create innovative climate resilience games.

Resilience in action

Arsht-Rock at COP28

At COP28, Arsht-Rock will ignite collective action on climate adaptation, finance, and policy. With our partners, we will elevate this urgent issue and highlight the opportunities to mobilize and scale investments in climate adaptation and accelerate gender-responsive, community-led solutions to protect communities from the impacts of climate-driven extreme heat.

Resilience in action

Heat Season Campaign

Arsht-Rock developed its #HeatSeason campaign to raise awareness and inform people globally about the impact of extreme heat, not only as a climate risk but as a serious threat to human health and wellbeing.

Individual and community resilience

Resilience in action

Humanitarian Service Points

Humanitarian Service Points provide assistance to migrants at points of departure, along migratory routes, and at destination points, indiscriminate of legal status.

Innovative policy and finance solutions

Resilience in action

Insurance Sector Mobilization Campaign

Arsht-Rock, supported by Marsh McLennan, has partnered with the COP27 and COP26 High Level Climate Champions to mobilize and scale the insurance sector’s capabilities to advance climate adaptation and resilience, accelerating a transition from ambition to action.

Gaming technology

Minecraft: Extreme Heat Series

Arsht-Rock developed games for Minecraft Education that build resilience to the impacts of extreme heat worldwide.

Resilience in action

Miami-Dade Countywide Resilience Hub Network Strategy

The Resilience Hub Network Strategy will develop a sustainable network of local hubs to make Miami-Dade more resilient to climate change.

Resilience in action

Urban Farming Initiative

The horticulture initiative uses nature-based solutions to reduce exposure to heat, foster self-sufficiency, and improve food security.

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