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Thank you World Economic Forum and Daniel Murphy for featuring our parametric income supplement insurance (and cash support) for women facing brutally hot working conditions and the related income loss. 🙏🙏 The Women’s Climate Shock insurance and Livelihoods initiative (WCS), developed by Climate Resilience for All, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), and Swiss Re, recently established a first-of-its-kind income replacement combined product so outdoor women workers aren’t forced to work during extreme heat waves and risk serious health effects and death. During a record-breaking heatwave this year, the product paid out to more than 46,000 female outdoor workers, replacing the income they would have lost due to their inability to safely work amid extreme temperatures. The programme includes an early warning system that provides guidance for specific communities. It also helps participants access the financial system by providing bank accounts so they can receive the money more quickly and directly. Kathy Baughman McLeod Rachel Kyte Emma Howard Boyd CBE Mary McBryde https://lnkd.in/daD7usXC

📣📣 We are excited to share this first-ever guide for visually capturing extreme heat! Extreme heat has become a serious threat to life and health, particularly for vulnerable populations. However, the scale and seriousness of the threat is hard to portray visually, and it ends up being communicated with images of a thermometer, people at the beach, drinking water, or splashing in fountains, undermining its impacts. Climate Resilience for All, in collaboration with Climate Visuals developed these guidelines to help rethink extreme heat visuals and more effectively tell and show the story of dangerous and accelerating heat extremes and the people they impact. Are you a photographer, videographer, communicator or visual artist? What is your experience communicating heat visually, is there anything missing? Let us know. Help us share this resource with others and spread the word. https://lnkd.in/eMK4Z7MF

We remember #KofiAnnan as a gender equality advocate who fought fiercely for human rights. Today marks six years since the passing of the former United Nations Secretary-General. His legacy lives on.

🇮🇳 CRA is proud to work with NRDC India on #extremeheat solutions. 🇮🇳 Please read and share our co-authored op-ed published yesterday in Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt. Ltd. (Outlook Planet) by our CEO Kathy Baughman McLeod and Dipa Singh Bagai, Country Head of NRDC India. India is the birthplace of heat solutions - and the world can learn a lot from its proven innovations in managing heat and passive cooling - old and new. India is among the nations hardest hit by heat this year. Since mid-May, New Delhi has battled 38 consecutive days with temperatures above 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit). But India—long accustomed to dealing with intense heat—also has a long history of innovation in many fields, particularly in the field of keeping people cooler and safer on blistering days. Ensuring enough finance is directed at the increasingly urgent problem is key to making sure people and businesses are prepared for hotter days to come, as the fossil fuel emissions that drive climate change continue to rise. Rachel Kyte Abhiyant Tiwari Smriti George Prima Madan Vijay Limaye, PhD Geraldine Henrich-Koenis Laurie Goering Clean Cooling Collaborative #India #innovation #cooling https://lnkd.in/exYP6hxP

📢 Join us!! We're announcing a new tool to better communicate extreme heat and we invite you to this timely virtual event. Is it time to rethink extreme heat visuals? ♨ Climate Resilience for All in collaboration with Climate Visuals will be releasing a first-ever guide for photographers, videographers, communicators and visual artists for capturing extreme heat. 🗓 Join us on August 21 at 9am EDT. Register here ➡ https://lnkd.in/eR6Bnvab The impacts of extreme heat are quickly intensifying, making heat the biggest killer among climate-driven disasters. But the scale and seriousness of the threat is hard to portray visually, not least because heat is largely invisible - unlike other climate extremes such as floods and storms - and because many of those most affected suffer in silence, out of the public eye. How can photographers and videographers accurately portray extreme heat as the serious threat to life and health that it is?   Join Climate Resilience for All, Climate Visuals, and photographers at the frontlines of dangerous heat for the first-ever conversation about how to more effectively tell and show the story of accelerating heat extremes and the people they impact.   🗓 Wednesday, August 21, 9-10 am EDT, 2-3 pm BST, 3-4 pm CET, 6:30-7:30 pm IST    Moderator: Laurie Goering, Extreme heat editor, Climate Resilience for All    Panelists:  ☑ Kathy Baughman McLeod, CEO, Climate Resilience for All    ☑ Alastair Johnstone, Manager, Climate Visuals    ☑ Supratim Bhattacharjee, award-winning Kolkata-based climate change, environment and humanitarian photographer    ☑ Bhumika Saraswati, award-winning New Delhi-based writer, photographer and filmmaker #ClimateResilience #ExtremeHeat #Heatwaves #Photography Climate Resilience for All

This week, London saw its highest temperature so far this year. With the world having seen the four hottest days in recorded history in one week in July - and London now more regularly seeing summer temperatures pass 30C/86F - “the biggest thing we have to get right is the urgency of this. We haven’t got a second to lose,” said Emma Howard Boyd CBE, the former chair of Britain’s environment agency and a board member of Climate Resilience for All (CRA). Laurie Goering, CRA’s Extreme Heat editor spoke with Emma about the work she led on the London Climate Resilience Review published just this past July. The document calls, among other recommendations, for swift creation of a London-wide heat action plan, and deeper preparation for potential “cascading risks”, such as extended extreme heat leading to water shortages, power failures, transport shutdowns and overwhelmed hospital emergency rooms. Read more ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eYWguaVq #ExtremeHeat #ClimateResilience

"...London now more regularly seeing summer temperatures pass 30C - “the biggest thing we have to get right is the urgency of this. We haven’t got a second to lose,” said Emma Howard Boyd CBE. Climate Resilience for All #extremeheat

Climate Resilience for All applauds Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion COP27 for supporting today's #extremeheat Call to Action by Sec. General António Guterres. It fits his longstanding commitment to climate #adaptation and his leadership to deliver the #SharmElSheikhadaptationagenda at COP 27. His statement of support: "As with other climate impacts, extreme heat disproportionately hits the vulnerable hardest. It is the women and workers of developing economies and emerging markets that are the most exposed and with the least capacity to protect themselves from heat shocks. This call to action will hopefully spur the kind of investment and cooperation that will help us protect everyone. Innovation to solve climate challenges is coming from around the world - and time and time again, it comes from developing countries. We can see that in response to extreme heat. I commend the UN Secretary General for his leadership and vision to address this rapidly growing economic and human crisis. This call to action should galvanize support to ensure we have the data and tools for every leader to take steps to protect their citizens. And of course, that we urgently reduce emissions that drive heat shocks." Additional important perspectives on today's announcement can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eNpQvS-n When women are climate resilient, we will all be climate resilient. Now, let's go do it! Rachel Kyte

🌍📢 UN Sec. General Guterres Announces a Global Call to Action on Extreme Heat! 📢🌍 Climate Resilience for All is proud to be a part of and support the UN Secretary-General's urgent call to address the severe impacts of extreme heat, particularly on women and vulnerable communities. We commend the leadership of Sec. General António Guterres and the United Nations agencies that helped make this happen.    Our CEO, Kathy Baughman McLeod said, “As an organization focused on addressing extreme heat for women and vulnerable communities, we are grateful to see the recognition of the massive scale of the draining and deadly effects of extreme heat – especially for the poor and  climate-blameless.    This call to action holds great promise for tangible solutions that respect the needs and dignity of people facing life in extreme heat. It is critical that actions prioritize the health and livelihoods of women, as they physically, culturally, and financially bear a bigger share of the brutal brunt of heat.“     Please find the official collection of global and community leaders’ endorsements and reactions to today’s first-ever global declaration on extreme heat on our website here: https://lnkd.in/gKdsWT9Q     Selwin Hart, Rachel Kyte, Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Jessica Brown, Jess Ayers, Masatsugu Asakawa ADB, Eamon Ryan, Izabella Monica Teixeira (She/Her), Razan Al Mubarak, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Nigel Topping, CMG, Gonzalo Muñoz Abogabir CMG , Jeff Goodell, Mamta Borgoyary, Laura Clarke OBE, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Veronica Scotti, Julie Arrighi, Ritu Bharadwaj, Karim Elgendy   📢 The Call to Action in short:  The UN Secretary-General's Call to Action on Extreme Heat brings together the diverse expertise and perspectives of ten specialized UN entities (FAO, ILO, OCHA, UNDRR, UNEP, UNESCO, UN-Habitat, UNICEF, WHO, WMO) in a first-of-its-kind joint product, underscoring the multi-sectoral impacts of extreme heat.    Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere. Billions of people around the world are wilting under increasingly severe heatwaves driven largely by a fossil fuel-charged, human-induced climate crisis. Extreme heat is tearing through economies, widening inequalities, undermining the Sustainable Development Goals, and killing people.     The Call for Action calls for an urgent and concerted effort to enhance international cooperation to address extreme heat in four critical areas: Caring for the vulnerable - Protecting workers - Boosting the resilience of economies and societies using data and science - Limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C by phasing out fossil fuels and scaling up investment in renewable energy.    Watch the briefing here: https://lnkd.in/gGc86ZCs   #ExtremeHeat #WomenInClimate #ClimateResilience #ClimateAction #ActNow

Climate Resilience for All congratulates our Deputy Chair, Emma Howard Boyd CBE, on today's release of the London Climate Resilience Review! And bravo to Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan for his leadership and foresight. 🎊 The 'Howard Boyd Review' gathered evidence and input from every aspect of life and work in London and delivers 50 thoughtful, well-supported recommendations directed at stakeholders across the city and the UK government. Recommendation #9 is focused on #extremeheat - and the creation of a strategic plan for London for adapting to higher temperatures and mentions the potential to name heat waves the way hurricanes are named to bring awareness, actionable guidance, and illness and mortality prevention. From the review: “The “silent killer” of heatwaves could claim up to 10,000 lives annually in the UK without concerted action, with the most vulnerable at greatest risk. Physical and mental health can be severely impacted: the Committee heard that suicide risk is twice as high in the UK when the temperature was 32°C rather than 22°C.” (source: The Environmental Audit Committee). Congratulations again to Emma Howard Boyd, George Leigh, and Johanna Sutton for the deep and wide technical and intellectual work that went into this crucial contribution to the field of urban climate adaptation planning and action. Now, every city's mayor can show this #climateresilience leadership - this review shows the way. 👉