Data for Heat Resilience: What We Have, Lack, and Need?

The Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), in partnership with the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and with support from the HT Parekh Foundation (HTPF), is convening a closed-door roundtable on ‘Data for Heat resilience: What we have, lack, and need?’ as part of the inaugural Mumbai Climate Week 2026 (MCW), the first-of-its-kind global convening and festival of climate action.

The roundtable will examine how stronger data systems can help Indian cities better understand, anticipate, and respond to rising heat risks. Bringing together decision-makers and practitioners, the discussion will explore how urban typologies and scales shape heat risk; what a shared heat data stack for Indian cities could entail; and how data and artificial intelligence could unlock more resilient, equitable, and financially robust heat solutions.

At the event, CSTEP will hold a soft launch of its National Heat Risk Dashboard (NHRD), a critical objective under its ongoing project ‘Building Heat Resilience In India’s Growing Urbanscapes (BHRIGU)’. This dashboard will visually depict heat patterns from the past, present, and future across 4,000+ urban landscapes.