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Published on: 03. July 2025

German Medical Association: Germany needs a national strategy against heat domes

March 26, 2025, Phoenix, Arizona, USA: A woman lies on a sidewalk exposed to rising temperatures as summer approaches. The Phoenix Navigation Center, a new homeless shelter, aims to help unsheltered residents like her with dorm-style beds and private, air-conditioned rooms. It opens as triple-digit heat returns to the Valley, after 2024”the hottest year on record in Phoenix, when 600 people died from heat-related causes, about half of them unhoused. Phoenix USA - ZUMAb270 20250326_znp_b270_018 Copyright: xEduardoxBarrazax
Heat in Phoenix in the US state of Arizona. (imago)

The German Medical Association and the German Alliance on Climate Change and Health are calling for extreme heatwaves to be classified as natural disasters in order to pave the way for appropriate protective measures, both legally and organizationally.

Kai Schöneberg

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Last updated: 24. July 2025

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