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Episode 3: How can we work on a heating planet?

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Kathy Baughman McLeod talks Alisha through the realities of what heat stress does to us, how workers across the globe are feeling the heat, and the tangible solutions being implemented to increase resilience.

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Alisha Wainwright

Kathy Baughman McLeod

34-minute listen

Alisha Wainwright

Kathy Baughman McLeod

34-minute listen

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Show notes

As the world gets hotter and hotter, so do we – and just like crops and wildlife, we’re struggling to cope with what extreme heat does to our bodies. Every year temperatures reach new records, and the way we live, work and rest are changing to accommodate it.  

Kathy Baughman McLeod, former director of the Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre and chair of the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance, talks Alisha through the realities of what heat stress does to us, how workers across the globe – from India to the US – are feeling the heat, and the tangible solutions being implemented globally to increase resilience. They discuss how women are disproportionately affected by this issue, and hear from the market traders of Freetown, Sierra Leone, a city on the front line of the climate crisis. They also meet the capitals’ Chief Heat Officer, who’s part of an international network of women working to protect their city’s most vulnerable communities from the risks of rising temperatures. 

Meet the guest

  • Kathy Baughman McLeod

    Former Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center

    Kathy Baugham-McLeod is the former Senior Vice President and Director for the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center and Chair of the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance. Prior to this, she was Senior Vice President for Global Environmental and Social Risk for Bank of America, and Managing Director for Climate Risk and Resilience for the Nature Conservancy – a global environmental non-profit – during which time she produced a documentary about coastal communities adapting to climate change

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