California is unprepared to confront increasingly extreme heat, according to a UCLA report published Oct. 27.
The report from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation outlined a lack of coordinated policy and funding efforts at the state level to address extreme heat exposure, said Gregory Pierce, co-director of the center and a contributing editor of the report.
JR DeShazo, one of the report’s authors and former director of the center, said their research was guided by three questions: which populations are the most vulnerable, which locations face the most consequences when exposed to heat and which agencies are responsible for regulating such exposures.
