Tamil Nadu and UK Governments launch Heat Resilience Centre
November 21, 2025
A significant step towards strengthening Tamil Nadu’s capacity to address rising extreme heat has been reached through the Government of Tamil Nadu and the UK Government’s joint launch of the Heat Resilience Centre for the State, buoyed by the UK’s flagship Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA) programme. The initiative is being implemented in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Cool Coalition, under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) funded BeCool project, and the World Resources Institute (WRI). The programme will run until September 2026.
A Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed on 21 November 2025, between Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company and the UK Government, and was formally exchanged between Supriya Sahu IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change and Forests Department and Seema Malhotra MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Government of United Kingdom.
Tamil Nadu has committed to climate impacts and a sustainable future by joining the global Beat the Heat Implementation Drive launched on November 11, 2025 at COP30 in Brazil. The state’s pioneering work on extreme heat and sustainable cooling including initiatives in schools, affordable housing, and urban areas has been highlighted in the newly released UNEP Global Cooling Watch 2025 report at COP30.
