
Final Conference of the Heat and Health in Cities research project
6 October @ 9 h 30 min - 17 h 30 min

After five years of research, the H2C – Heat and Health in Cities – project is sharing its findings!
The project’s final conference will take place on 6 October 2025 at the Halle Pajol in Paris. The full programme and registration link will be available soon.
Climate change is already palpable in the Île-de-France region, with the area warming rapidly (+2°C since the mid-1950s) and experiencing increasingly severe heatwaves. This is not without consequences for human health, as past experience has shown: nearly 15,000 excess deaths nationwide during the 2003 heatwave, including 5,000 in the Île-de-France region alone. These extreme weather events are set to become more frequent and intense in the future. According to Météo France, a year as hot as 2022 would be an exceptionally cool year by 2100 under the TRACC (reference trajectory for adaptation to climate change for a France at +4°C).
The occurrence of heatwaves raises questions in several areas of knowledge:
- Understand the factors that increase the intensity of these events in our cities, from the neighbourhood level to the building level,
- Put into perspective the health issues related to high exposure to the environment but also linked to the deterioration of air quality,
- Qualify the social issues and the vulnerability of the population to these events,
- Shed light on the solutions and expected effects to deal with these events, illustrating the role played by green spaces.