“I don’t think the question necessarily is, ‘Should we do this?’ The question is, 'How do we do it in a way that’s not just throwing money at the problem?'”
that s right. just in the past ten minutes the met office have put out an extreme heat warning, that s an amber weather warning in force across england and wales for exceptional high temperatures and they have lots of different effects. it can cause problems with people with underlying health conditions, the 2003 heatwave that affected western europe tens of thousands of people died as a result. whereas a lot of people think it is hot and sunny i m going to go out and enjoy it. there is a really serious side to these extreme heat waves that we see from time to time. infrastructure can be affected, railways expand and so often you see speed restrictions so it can affect travel and sometimes energy supplies. it is one of the thing we re going to have to start thinking about in future years, heat resilience in the way we build things and how we conduct our daily lives. conduct our daily lives. that s ri . ht. conduct our daily lives. that s right- there conduct our daily lives. that s
India is no stranger to hot temperatures, but in 2022, they struck earlier, lasted longer and hit record highs. Ahmedabad's pioneering strategy to protect the vulnerable is a model for climate adaptation efforts across India.