A new CCCA Fact Sheet has been published under the title "Making Heat Risk Tangible — Profiles of Multiple Burdens and Implications for Socially Just Adaptation". The authors are researchers Julia Beier (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Eva Preinfalk (University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change) and Susanne Hanger-Kopp (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis).

Key messages
• Vulnerability arises from the intersection of various factors, such as gender, ethnicity, age, income, housing conditions, and health — the so-called multiple burden.
• Heat risk profiles provide a basis for designing socially just climate policy measures and for expanding existing instruments to incorporate aspects of multiple burden.
• Socially just climate change adaptation requires integrating climate and social policy and a mix of measures.

The Fact Sheet, produced as part of the DISCC-AT project, illustrates how strongly social inequalities shape vulnerability to heat and flooding in Austria. The newly developed risk profiles show the current and future exposure of vulnerable groups and provide an important basis for targeted and equitable climate change adaptation.