Temperatures up to 45C recorded in April in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos
Heat action plans — which are government-run and funded and aim to help people deal with extreme heat through awareness programmes, training for healthcare workers and affordable cooling methods — need to be implemented faster in India and other heat-affected countries, the study’s authors said.
“Access to healthcare and to cooling solutions like fans and air conditioners is missing for a lot of the population in this region,” said Emmanuel Raju, the director of the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Disaster Research and another of the study’s authors. Raju said heat affected the poorest people and people whose work required them to be outside – farmers, street vendors and construction workers – the most.
“It’s important to talk about who can cope and adapt to heat,” he said. “Many are still recovering from the pandemic, and from past heatwaves and cyclones, which leaves them trapped in a vicious cycle.” The southern Asian region is considered among the most vulnerable to climate change in the world, according to numerous global climate studies.“Heatwaves will become more common, temperatures will rise even more and the number of hot days will increase and become more frequent” if we continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, said Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, a lecturer at Chiang Mai University in Thailand and a co-author of the study.
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