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SUMMARY:Urban Heat Island Effect
DESCRIPTION:Discover a groundbreaking initiative with “Cities and Climate Change: Focus on Chennai,” a 10-part webinar series presented by INHAF under the visionary ClimACT-Chennai initiative. This series stands as a pioneering effort, igniting collaborative climate action and uniting diverse stakeholders toward a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Chennai, and potentially, for cities across India.\nThe webinar series aims to catalyze collaboration among experts, academics, policy-makers, advocates, practitioners, and CSOs/NGOs. It is a holistic exploration of climate challenges, delving into segments such as impacts and resilience (including extreme rainfall and flooding, urban heat island effect, sea-level rise, and coastal erosion), and mitigation strategies (encompassing buildings, transportation, waste, and power generation).\nUrban Heat Island Effect:\nOne of the many hazardous climatic changes already noticeable is the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves. Leave alone West Asia and the Indian sub-continent which are familiar with such events, even otherwise cooler regions in Europe, the US and Canada have experienced soaring and prolonged heat waves with temperatures even crossing 50°C!  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading scientific body on the subject, predicts that in the near future heat waves will get more severe, last longer, and occur more frequently.\nDue to poor planning, haphazard and thoughtless patterns of urban development, Cities and towns already experience temperatures about 2-5°C or more higher than the surrounding rural hinterland. Over-concretized built areas, shrinking green areas, water bodies, the rapidly growing number of air-conditioners, combined, together with high density of built space, drastic reduction of wind flows and air circulation, and dust and other air pollutants, build up what is known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. While everyone in urban areas is affected, the urban poor living in poorly ventilated houses in over-crowded, densely populated informal settlements will be affected the most. In India, with summer temperatures in many regions at 45°C or more, the added temperature caused by UHI will be deadly, pushing up morbidity and mortality during heat waves. In coastal Cities such as Chennai humidity is an additional and grave threat.\nThis problem cries out for attention NOW! While measures to control the global problem of climate change continue, many impactful measures can be taken, and should be implemented immediately. This will save lives, reduce expensive hospitalizations and other medical costs, save or reduce loss of income, and otherwise substantially improve people’s well-being and livability of urban areas.\nThe Webinar will have subject experts and practitioners discussing the problem, and potential solutions, from a pan-India perspective, from other Cities and from Chennai.\n
URL:https://www.inhaf.org/webinar/urban-heat-island-effect-104/
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