As heat waves intensify globally, the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center believes naming and ranking them on a 1 to 3 severity scale using health-based metrics could save lives. It’s a concept the Arsht-Rock Resilience Center, which works to implement climate-change solutions, is piloting in:
- California
- Miami
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Athens, Greece
- Seville, Spain, which became the first city worldwide to name a heat wave: Zoe.