Pavilion · Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB)

When (Antalya time)

Thu 12 Nov 2026 · 15:30–16:30

Where

German Climate Pavilion

Pavilion

German Climate Pavilion — all sessions

Language

English

Themes

Adaptation, Cities & Infrastructure, Health

Extreme heat is becoming one of the most direct impacts of climate change on cities worldwide. Record-breaking summer temperatures in 2026 - from Europe to other regions represented at COP31 - have again shown that heat risk is not distributed evenly across the population. Vulnerable groups, such as homeless people, people in adequate settlements or people who face poverty are consistently among those hit hardest, yet they are the groups least likely to be reached by conventional cooling infrastructure or early-warning systems. Homeless people face particularly acute risk: they typically lack access to shaded or cooled shelter, are often excluded by design from public cooling spaces and are harder to reach through standard communication channels during heat emergencies. This is a shared challenge across very different urban and institutional contexts - what varies is how cities have responded, and there is much to learn from comparing approaches. This sessions offers a platform to bring city practitioners, national governments and welfare organisations together around this specific, often under-addressed dimension of urban climate adaptation: protecting the people most exposed to heat and least able to protect themselves.

Collected from German Climate Pavilion