Expanding Heat Resilience
Recently, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit, released a report, titled ‘Expanding Heat Resilience Across India: Heat Action Plan Highlights 2022’.
Key Highlights
- Heat Stress: As climate change leads to more frequent, intense and longer heat waves, extreme hot weather is already a major health threat for vulnerable communities.
- Heat stress refers to physiological ailments and symptoms caused by exposure to high temperatures and often humidity.
- Heat stress already affects 68 million people worldwide as of 2021.
- Temperatures touched the 40°C mark in March across large parts of central and western India. Many cities are reeling under heatwaves.
- Extreme temperatures are ....
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