RESOURCES

The Freetown Heat Action Plan is Africa's first and it outlines targeted actions, policies, and partnerships to enhance heat resilience for vulnerable communities. 

Adaptation finance is needed urgently by climate-exposed communities across the globe. This primer presents potential sources of financing for climate adaptation and resilience projects as the world gets hotter, wetter, drier, and generally more vulnerable to the deadly and costly shocks and stresses of climate change. 

The accelerating effect of extreme heat is now the biggest killer among climate extreme events. But the scale and seriousness of the threat is hard to portray visually, not least because heat is largely invisible - unlike other climate extremes such as floods and storms - and because many of those suffering its impact do so indoors, out of the public eye.