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A street food vendor cooks at her stall as traders and motorbikes move through a hot, hazy city street.

Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026

Heat, Work and the New Economy

Protecting Informal Workers in a Warming Asia

  –  Bangkok

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Co-hosted by Practical Action CEEW

01 The reality

Heat does not stop at the thermometer.

Extreme heat affects income, health, mobility, productivity and the ability to work safely.

For millions of informal and outdoor workers, the problem is not simply whether a warning exists. It is whether they can afford to stop working, whether protection is available, and whether institutions respond in time.

Heat becomes economically dangerous not simply when temperatures rise, but when people lack the information, agency, institutions and financial protection required to act.

A construction worker carries a heavy load of wet concrete on his shoulder across a building site in harsh sun.

02 The question

What would it actually take to protect an informal worker before, during and after a dangerous heat event?

A warning only matters if people can act on it.

Women traders sort bundles of leafy greens at a busy open-air market in the morning heat.

03 The protection chain

A heat warning is not protection.

Protection exists only when information triggers an action that a worker can actually use — and when institutions and finance make that action possible.

A dense, sun-bleached city street with market stalls, buses, motorbikes and pedestrians beneath an elevated railway.
  1. 01

    Sense

    Know where and when heat risk is rising.

  2. 02

    Decide

    Turn warnings into clear responsibilities and decisions.

  3. 03

    Act

    Make protection possible — shade, hydration, cooling, work-rest and community response.

  4. 04

    Sustain

    Protect income, institutions and the ability to act again next time.

Co-hosted by

Practical Action We’re an international organisation taking practical action against poverty and the environmental crises to start the big changes today’s world urgently needs. practicalaction.org Council on Energy, Environment and Water CEEW — one of Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions. ceew.in
In late-afternoon light, a market trader packs away her stall while others wheel carts home along the street.

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A small, in-person working session bringing together people working across heat, livelihoods, cities, public health and worker protection.

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