{"id":252947,"date":"2024-06-21T17:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/uttar-pradesh-responds-to-deadly-heat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:07:59","slug":"uttar-pradesh-responds-to-deadly-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/uttar-pradesh-responds-to-deadly-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh Responds to Deadly Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"c-wysiwyg u-clearfix\" data-wysiwyg=\"\">\n<p><em>Co-authored with <strong>Sameeha Hossain, NRDC Intern and Graduate Student at the Yale School of Public Health,\u00a0<\/strong> with contributions from <strong>Ashish Jindal, <\/strong>and <strong>Gerry George <\/strong>of NRDC India<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With record breaking temperatures taking a devastating toll on human health, the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has prepared a long-term heat resilience plan, which was presented in a June 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024 workshop. Hosted by the Department of Housing and Urban Planning, Department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (EF&amp;CC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and other knowledge partners, the Uttar Pradesh Urban Cooling Policy Workshop identified several concrete steps the state is taking to strengthen its response against heat.\u00a0Premature heat-related deaths due to heat waves, intensified by global warming, are becoming more of a heartbreaking reality in India, pushing public health systems&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/sameer-kwatra\/responding-deadly-heat-uttar-pradesh-drafts-urban-cooling-policy\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on www.nrdc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-authored with Sameeha Hossain, NRDC Intern and Graduate Student at the Yale School of Public Health,\u00a0 with contributions from Ashish Jindal, and Gerry George of NRDC India With record breaking temperatures taking a devastating toll on human health, the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has prepared a long-term heat resilience plan, which was presented in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":252948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - 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