Overview

• Barcelona’s Plan Calor is embedded in its broader Pla Clima framework and addresses projected temperature rises of up to 4.5 °C by 2100.
• Within two years the city will stage a district-based 50 °C heatwave simulation to evaluate its infrastructure, emergency services and public response.
• The exercise will involve institutions, operational units and residents and follow Paris’s 2023 model to forge an extreme-heat action protocol.
• Local authorities will install 200 shaded areas covering five hectares and have doubled public water-play facilities to enhance outdoor cooling.
• The programme also commits to air-conditioning 170 public schools by 2029 and is testing reflective pavements in Les Corts to mitigate urban heat islands.