Does your city have a Heat Action Plan? You can now check on cravis.ai It sounds like a simple question, but there's been no easy way to answer it. India's heat plans have lived in scattered PDFs across dozens of municipal websites—hard to find, harder to compare, impossible to learn from at scale. So we've built a Heat Action Plan repository into CRAVIS. In the Resources section, you can now: → See 140+ HAPs across India on a single map: the ones already adopted, and the ones still being drafted → Download any plan to study what's working and adapt it for your context Take Panaji's plan, which @CEEWIndia helped develop. It scores every ward in the city for heat risk, using everything from the share of residents over 65 to access to water and chronic illness rates. It sets humidity-adjusted alert thresholds month by month—a red alert at 38°C in May, calibrated to a coastal city, not borrowed from a national average. It names which department does what, and where drinking water, shade, and health services need to reach first. That granularity is the point. A plan on its own doesn't cool a city. But it is the first, non-negotiable building block that turns enables specific, fundable, accountable action. @GhoshArunabha @vishchi @Shravanverse

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The growing #heat crisis isn’t just about hotter summers—it’s about how early heat arrives, where it concentrates, and who is most exposed. This is why the South Asia Heat and Health Hub, funded by @wellcometrust, will work to strengthen partnerships and action, moving from heat data on screens to health impact on the ground. The Hub aims to bring together more than 60 institutions, train over 500 professionals, and strengthen heat action plans across South Asia. 🔗 More at heathealth.info/southasia/ @heathealth_info @WHO @WHOSEARO @WMO @SFC_India @NRDC @NRDC_India @BRACJPGSPH @UNESCAP @iitmpune @Indiametdept @GhoshArunabha @vishchi @bhargavkrishna @FarzanaMisha @joygmt

Climate data shouldn't need a PhD to understand. Meet CRAVIS—the Climate Resilience Analytics and Visualisation Intelligence System. 279 indicators. 40+ years of historical climate trends. Projections to 2070. Every district in India. One conversational interface for journalists, researchers, planners, and citizens. High-resolution data, visualisation, and a conversational AI layer—all in one. Try it now: cravis.ai

🚨 India could see between 15 and 40 more unusually hot days every year over the next two decades, compared to the 1981–2010 baseline. This map shows where the heat is loading hardest 👇 The projection comes from the Climate Resilience Analytics and Visualisation Intelligence System (cravis.ai)—a new AI-powered climate intelligence tool launched by @CEEWIndia. The night-time story is just as serious. CRAVIS projects that several regions will see 20 to 40 more unusually warm nights every year. Warm nights matter because the body relies on the cooler hours after sunset to recover from heat stress. When that recovery window shrinks, mortality risk rises. CRAVIS is open, interoperable, and free for anyone to use. Built in India, for the data ecosystems and decision-makers of the Global South. #AskCRAVIS something about your district. Tell us what surprised you!

#InTheMedia | “The IMD forecasts above-average rainfall this year—106% of the Long Period Average. But this doesn't mean uniform distribution. Our analysis reveals a growing trend of short, erratic rainfall bursts, posing serious challenges for planning and resilience.” Senior Programme Lead @vishchi breaks down the @Indiametdept monsoon forecast on @WIONews 👇 📺youtube.com/watch?v=TZxIziTC…

#Opinion | Planning for a hotter world If 2024 broke heat records, 2025 must look at climate resilience front and centre. @vishchi writes for @IndianExpress 👇 Read more at indianexpress.com/article/op…

We are pleased to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Thane District Administration to support the enhancement of climate resilience across 6 municipal corporations in the district. We will also collaborate on technical support and capacity enhancement of the relevant stakeholders along with developing action plans on heat stress, urban flooding and clean air. @Info_Thane1 @city_thane @TMCaTweetAway

Our inaugural art x climate exhibition of 'Sustaina India,' co-conceptualised with the artist duo Thukral & Tagra, opens on 2 Feb at Bikaner House, Delhi, on the sidelines of @IndiaArtFair! 🗓️Date: 2-15 Feb 📌Venue: CCA Gallery, 1st floor, Bikaner House, New Delhi Join us for the preview this Friday. RSVP below👇 bit.ly/sustainaindia