Combatting extreme heat: Our 5-key roadmap for cities

What you will find in this insight

• Why heat is a structural urban challenge: Discover why extreme heat can no longer be treated as a seasonal anomaly—and what this means for how we design and govern our cities.

• 5 Strategic shifts cities must make: From cool materials to climate shelter networks and smarter urban greening, explore five essential changes for long-term resilience.

• The case for thermal justice: Learn how extreme heat deepens inequality—and why access to cool, livable spaces must become a basic urban right.

‘Heat is here, it’s intensifying, and it’s changing how cities need to operate. The only real answer is structural: we need to redesign our urban environments, rethink how we govern them, and invest in public services that can cope with the reality of a much hotter future.’