Extreme temperatures across the U.S. have put the elderly, outdoors workers and people with no access to cool air at greatest risk of severe heat-related
Extreme temperatures across the U.S. have put the elderly, outdoors workers and people with no access to cool air at the greatest risk of severe heat-related illnesses or even death
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Cities appoint heat officers in response to warming threat
3 May, 2021 09:16 PM
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Heatwaves killed 166,000 people between 1998 and 2017. Photo / Getty Images
Financial Times
By: Camilla Hodgson
Cities around the world are responding to the threat from rising temperatures by hiring chief heat officers to address a problem that will be accentuated by climate change. Miami-Dade County, the densely populated coastal region of Florida on the climate change frontline, will on Friday name Jane Gilbert as the world s first chief heat officer. Athens, the Greek capital that recorded the highest temperature ever in Europe, and Freetown in Sierra Leone plan similar appointments. Other vulnerable cities are set to follow suit but have been held up by the pandemic.