India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level

“The more granular data, the more you answer,” Krishna adds. Instead of general recommendations such as “drinking more water”, localized data can manage special actions: market or factory hours, place effective heating shelters or build oral rehydrate settlement stations in high-level areas. “If you know who is the most sensitive, you can move faster,” he said.

However, Delhi and the other passing through a bow and crossing a background Deaths associated with hot And as the growing climate stress, many relief measures promised by the government – as to place 3000 Water Refrigerators In public places, changing the time of construction work and open workers and homeless people in the day sheltersshould still be implemented.

This year, the heat feels more intolerable for Zubaida. “My blood pressure falls, I break the headache,” he says. The frequent and long-term power cut in the neighborhood has a little respite at home. “We need a shade of the necessary shelter and bottom.”

Part of the problem is that heating plans are not legally binding, new Delhi-based futures, New Delhi-based futures in the surrounding research organization says Tamanna Dalal. “Heat waves are not recognized as a catastrophe in most India,” he said. “Currently, only eight states have officially announced the waves of heat, as a disaster.

The National Government is does not recognize As the heat waves are “warned”, such as disasters, the country means that they cannot provide financial assistance in the disaster management legislation.

As a result, if measures are taken, it tends to be short-term and jet. Temporary measures are also ordered by health departments every year, such as the school closure ordered by the education department or oral rehydration solution. However, these measures do nothing to establish structural resistance to cities to adapt to the deterioration of the human heating situation.

As a result, it is also about building more heat-capable cities that can adapt and alleviate the heat with other policy purposes. Explains by Xos, like energy, water, workplace and air quality.

Roads of financing now are already available. “18 centers have direct connections to long-term solutions listed in sponsored schemes, pipeline water supply, roofing and rotting,” Dalal says. However, many local officials do not know that these sources are available. Recently adjustment India’s National Disaster Enlargement Fund now helps to finance heat-related actions, but consciousness is very low. India is still in the country’s thermal planning stage and the increase in large-scale capacity is urgently needed to help them to see the heat of the warming world as a chronic threat.

“We soon reach the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, which will be returned,” Dalal touches the target limit for global warming Set out in the Paris AgreementIt is almost a violation of the world. “This will affect every aspect of our daily lives. It is important to carry out some long-term solutions for the next few years, because it takes years to implement and take years to influence.”