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Find practical actions

What works, who does it,
and what keeps it working.

Pick a setting, or start from a question. Each card answers eight things: what to do, who it protects, where it suits, who acts, what it takes to run, the evidence, what could stop it, and what it only works with.

Watch: A heat-resilient market · 0:25 · narrated, captions in the picture

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What could a heat-resilient market look like?

Look around an illustrative market: shade over the stalls, a water point, a place to rest, a cooler roof, a tree, and a vendor’s working day. Each one shows what could help, and what it depends on.

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Prefer reading? The market, as text

What each evidence label means

Cards and cases carry a label saying what kind of evidence they cite. It describes the evidence, not how good the action is.

Prefer plain text, or printing? Every setting and action as one page · Printable one-pagers · Solutions library: 131 solutions and their evidence · Country snapshots · The heat economy: businesses and investors

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Practical actions against extreme heat, by setting: workplaces, homes, schools, clinics, markets and what a city decides before summer.

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