Climate Adaptation & Resilience: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Mitigation for Extreme Heat

CIC

Event at a glance

  • Date/time: 25/09/2025 16:00 - 17:30
  • Hosted by: CIC
  • Location: Online
  • Topic(s): Webinar

As climate change and urbanisation drive rising temperatures, extreme heat is becoming more frequent, intense, and prolonged. But heat is more than just temperature - it's shaped by humidity, air and water flows, vegetation, and urban design.

Join our FREE interdisciplinary webinar to explore innovative, nature-based and community-led strategies for tackling heat. Our expert panel will share insights from research, policy, and practice, covering city-wide approaches, small-scale interventions, and collaborative stewardship models.

Discover how holistic design can help us adapt, mitigate, and build thriving, heat-resilient places.

Speakers:

  • Sophia Vela, Strategic Partnerships Project Manager, Chicago Department of Environment
  • Raed Mansour, Senior Fellow: Greening America's Cities, Metropolitan Planning Council
  • Asha Tomlin-Kent, Senior Policy and Programmes Officer, Green Infrastructure, Greater London Authority
  • Maria Villalobos Hernandez, Associate Professor & Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, Illinois Institute of Technology