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As heat seasons kick off, HERA launches the Heat Science Hotline
Providing evidence-based guidance, grounded in human expertise, to accelerate effective heat solutions to help those on the frontlines respond now.
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African Heat Initiative Launched at First African Urban Heat Summit in Freetown
The first African Urban Heat Summit was held in Sierra Leone, marking a significant step in urgently elevating and addressing extreme heat impacts, with the launch of Freetown's first-ever Heat Action Plan.
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Reactions from Global and Community Leaders, Civil Society to the UN Secretary-General’s Call to Action on Extreme Heat
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres launched a call to action on extreme heat, drawing reactions from global leaders, mayors, civil society organizations, and experts from around the world.
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World-First Financial Product Combining Insurance and Cash Payments for Extreme Heat is a Lifeline for 50,000 Informal Women Workers in India
A financial protection product combining insurance, cash for lost income, and an early warning system has secured livelihoods for 50,000 low-income women in India, with 92% of participants receiving insurance payouts following record extreme heat.
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Rukhmabai Initiatives
How rural women are reshaping who gets to do science in India
November 2026
TIME
HERA CEO Kathy Baughman Named to the 2026 TIME100 Climate List
November 2026
TIME
The Cost of Extreme Heat Is Displacement
August 2026
Financial Times
Tropical nights come to Europe
July 2026
The Independent
The island in Pakistan where 45C heat puts pregnant women and babies in danger
July 2026
Daily Maverick
Cooked: the precarious life of informal traders in a heating world
June 2026
Council on Foreign Relations
A Super El Niño Looks Likely This Year. Here’s How to Limit the Worst of Its Deadly Heat
June 2026
Prevention Web
Can earlier training for India’s frontline health workers help combat rising heat risk?
April 2026
Forbes
Jane Goodall Calls On CEOs To ‘Have Courage.’ Plus: This Former Microbiologist Built Kosas Into A $150 Million Clean Beauty Brand
September 2025
Vogue Business
How the insurance industry became an unlikely climate hero
September 2025
Yahoo News
Records confirm what you’re already feeling: Miami nights are hotter than ever
September 2025
New York Times
The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
August 2025
NPR
On super hot days, this insurance plan pays out cash for lost wages
July 2025
TIME
We Are All Now First Responders to Extreme Heat
June 2025
Euronews
Temperatures in Spain set to soar past 40C this week. Is climate change to blame?
June 2025
Forbes
SXSW London Debates: Is The Green Transition Financially Viable?
June 2025
Down To Earth
‘While 67% disasters are predicted, only 2% are financed in advance’
March 2025
World Economic Forum
Income protection and early warning systems: How India is building climate resilience
August 2024
Reuters
UN demands action on extreme heat as world registers warmest day
July 2024
Reuters
HERA at COP30. Our thought-leadership
July 2024
The New York Times
Planet Sets Record for Hottest Day Twice in a Row
July 2024
Ms. Magazine
Why Heat Is ‘the Silent Assassin of Climate Change’
July 2024
SiliconValley.com
Report: Extreme heat events created $7.7 billion in hidden costs in California
July 2024
CalMatters
Can women close the climate ‘gates of hell’?
July 2024
CalMatters
Hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, billions of dollars: The cost of extreme heat in California
July 2024
Devex
As heat affects workers worldwide, health policies struggle to keep up
July 2024
Insurance Business
What are the hidden costs of extreme heat in California?
July 2024
Insurance Business
‘Trauma and insecurity’ on rise as heat ailments disrupt work in Bangladesh
July 2024
Insurance Business
Groundbreaking South-North Initiative to Bring Heat Insurance and Resilience to Heat-Exposed Outdoor Workers of Los Angeles
July 2024
The New York Times
Three Ideas to Beat the Heat, and the People Who Made Them Happen
June 2024
USA Today
Extreme heat is getting worse. Can we learn to live with it? | The Excerpt
June 2024
The Times of India
How insurance cover helped 46,000 women avoid toiling in the sun during heatwave
June 2024
Devex
Devex Newswire: Insurance hope for India’s heat wave-affected workers
June 2024
The Sierra Leone Telegraph
Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr speaks at World Bank’s Climate Disaster Risk Finance Summit
June 2024
CNN
It’s so hot in India, an insurer is helping thousands of women buy food
June 2024
Bloomberg
Insurance helped 46,000 Indian women avoid deadly work during heat waves
June 2024
Reinsurance News
Extreme heat triggers combined insurance loss of income policy pay out to over 46k women in India
June 2024
Mongabay
India experiments with parametric insurance to mitigate costs of disasters
June 2024
Deem Journal
Prudential advances climate resilience efforts in Asia and Africa with US$2.5 million investment
June 2024
CBS News
Nonprofit offers Indian women cash, other assistance to deal with effects of extreme heat
June 2024
Devex
As India battles deadly heat waves, can insurance offer relief?
June 2024
Mongabay
Extreme heat is getting worse. Can we learn to live with it?
June 2024
Deem Journal
Jeff Goodell and Kathy Baughman McLeod on Extreme Heat, the Perils of Apathy, and Why It’s Not Too Late
June 2024
Devex
Come and meet us at the International Conference on Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies on 28 January 2026 in Kyoto.
June 2024
Reuters
Trailblazing Women in Climate 2024 – Kathy Baughman McLeod
March 2024
Prudential
Prudential advances climate resilience efforts in Asia and Africa with US$2.5 million investment to address impacts of climate change on health
January 2024
Context
“Can women close the climate ‘gates of hell’?
October 2023
NPR
Why scientists are advocating to name heat waves
July 2023
Bloomberg