Update collection and Analysis of Heat Health data

SDG(s)

Sustainable Development Goal(s)

9Industry, innovation and infrastructure

11Sustainable cities and communities

13Climate action

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Type of the Solution

Innovative

Description of the solution

In line with what community groups have asked for, the city should update the heat-related mortality data it uses and expand the indicators it uses to measure heat-related mortality and heat vulnerability. The City should also reassess what varibales it uses to create a heat index by considering other data sources for temperature and the built environment, such as humidity and building material type. This will help improve the accuracy and specificity of the heat Vulnerability Index tool and allow the city and researchers to make program and funding decisions that better target heat-vulnerable communities.

Who lead the solution

Local Government

Other Notes

WE ACT for Environmental Justice - The team is made up of researchers from the Earth Institute at Columbia University and experts from the environmental justice group WE ACT.

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SDG(s)

Sustainable Development Goal(s)

9Industry, innovation and infrastructure

11Sustainable cities and communities

13Climate action

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