A multidimensional assessment of systemic cooling poverty in the global south (opens in new tab)

Physiologically extreme heat increasingly threatens human health, particularly where climatic exposure intersects with systemic social, infrastructural and institutional unpreparedness. Systemic cooling poverty (SCP) describes conditions in which individuals are prevented from attaining thermal safety as a result of intersecting forms of systemic deprivation. Here we quantify SCP across 28 countries, mostly in the global south, by combining household survey data (n = 1,155,106 households), cl...