With many more people in India expected to be hit by even greater heat extremes in the future, finance, urban design and education are necessary to help people adapt, say these experts from University of Cambridge.
in April 2022 put 90 per cent of people in India at increased risk of going hungry, losing income or premature death, according to our new study.
During the May 2010 heatwaves, temperatures in the western city of Ahmedabad reached 47.8 degrees Celsius and raised heat-related hospital admissions of newborns by 43 per cent, prompting the city to become one of the country’s first to implement a heat action plan meant to guide preparations and emergency responses to heatwaves which has since saved thousands of lives.
A family cools themself in a park using irrigation water pipe as northern Indian continues to reel under intense heat wave in Lucknow in the the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on Apr 19, 2023. It’s important to accurately measure India’s vulnerability to lethal temperatures. The metric used by the Indian government, known as the climate vulnerability index, does not account for the physical dangers of heat to human health. Our research showed that combining air temperature and relative humidity levels gave our heat index a “real-feel” measure for extreme heat. In other words, how extreme heat felt for people experiencing it.
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