February 2022 A Message from the GCCA Board – New Leadership and Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Achievement Award Winner Thank you and Farewell to our GCCA Executive Director, Kurt Shickman It is with mixed emotions that the GCCA board bids farewell to Kurt Shickman, who after ten years as GCCA’s Executive Director is moving on to become … Continue reading Kurt Shickman Receives Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld Award →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
A group of organizations have sent an open letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer to highlight the opportunity ofncorporating heat resilience into the reconciliation legislation and their broader agenda. The letter lays out 9 recommendations for tackling extreme heat: Improve warning systems. Increasing awareness of the dangers from heat is the critical … Continue reading Extreme Heat in Reconciliation Legislation →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
A diverse group of 20 organizations has drafted a letter (Heat in Federal Policy 7_29_21) to leaders in the White House and Capitol Hill to highlight the opportunity to include resilience to extreme heat in federal infrastructure talks. The letter highlights the various short and long term investments to strengthen our communities to the threat … Continue reading Coalition Forms to Promote Resilience to Extreme Heat in Federal Infrastructure Talks →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
In December 2020, the Cool Roadways Partnership released a Request for Information to better understand the rapidly growing market for products that improve the heat resilience of our roads and pavements. Responses were received from 12 manufacturers, covering a wide range of seals, overlays, rejuvenation products and other solutions. Their unedited RFI responses and supporting … Continue reading Cool Roadways Solutions Available Today →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
Excessive Heat is a Major Urban Challenge. The need to protect people from extreme heat is one of the key resilience and sustainability challenges of the 21st Century. Rising urban temperatures have negative implications for nearly every aspect of urban life.| Global Cool Cities Alliance
GCCA Executive Director Kurt Shickman is the lead author on a new World Bank report — Primer for Cool Cities: Reducing Excessive Urban Heat with a Focus on Passive Measures — that details the many ways cities can transform into cooler, more habitable places in the face of rising temperatures and provides detailed, practical, actionable … Continue reading Primer for Cool Cities — Passive Cooling Solutions and How to Implement Them →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
Recommendations from GCCA, Society of Behavioral Medicine and others provide a roadmap for cities to address dangerous heat during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new policy brief from the Society of Behavioral Medicine lays out a roadmap to help cities adjust their approach to preparing for compounding health challenges dangerous summer heat and COVID-19. The brief … Continue reading Recommendations for cities during the COVID-19 pandemic →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
The Cool Roofs Challenge is an unprecedented $2 million initiative comprising an outcome-based $1 million challenge prize and $1 million of grant pool of up to ten $100,000 grants to support teams with their entry to the challenge. The final prize will be awarded to the team that has the most effective, sustainable and replicable … Continue reading The One Million Cool Roofs Challenge →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
The Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) has established an award to honor the legacy and impact of Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld’s advocacy for cooler buildings, cooler cities, and a cooler planet. Dr. Rosenfeld was a founder of GCCA and a tireless advocate for building materials that improve thermal comfort and make a positive impact on global … Continue reading Announcing the Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Achievement Award →| Global Cool Cities Alliance