{"id":19498,"date":"2025-09-19T04:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/?p=19498"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:07:49","slug":"dhaka-heat-stress-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/publication\/19498\/dhaka-heat-stress-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"DHAKA HEAT STRESS PROTECTION: Policy Responses for Urban Resilience and Climate-Labour Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dhaka\u2019s informal workforce is on the frontlines of a climate and labour justice crisis. Rising heat, driven by climate change, unplanned urbanisation, and shrinking green spaces, is threatening health, livelihoods, and human dignity. Women, garment workers, rickshaw pullers, and other outdoor workers face unsafe conditions, lost income, and serious health risks. This new policy-responsive issue brief from Greenpeace South Asia calls for urgent, equity-centred action: heat-adaptive workplaces, gender-responsive infrastructure, and strengthened climate-labour protections to safeguard livelihoods and human rights.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/09\/12c80734-issue-brief-september-dhaka-heat-stress-protection-_web_v2-3_compressed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>p{text-align:justify}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka\u2019s informal workforce is on the frontlines of a climate and labour justice crisis. Rising heat, driven by climate change, unplanned urbanisation, and shrinking green spaces, is threatening health, livelihoods,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":19500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-19498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19512,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions\/19512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=19498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}