Panagiota Kotsila

🌡️Heatwaves are one of the most invisible, yet deadly, climate risks in cities. In this clip, @pkotsila.bsky.social talks about climate vulnerabilities in El Raval, Barcelona, 1 of our key case studies ▶️https://palaumacaya.fundacionlacaixa.org/es/p/comunidad-reconstruccion-y-resiliencia_a172936012

We now have short guides of our methods! If any of you have used these before and want to share insights on how you adapted them get in touch!

🌍 How do climate & environmental changes affect health in migrant communities? In IMBRACE, we explore this through participatory, feminist and transdisciplinary methods: #bodymaps #photovoice #walkalong... click through to learn about each one 🧵 👇 imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/ #climatejustice

Bringing @imbrace-erc.bsky.social to this conference, inserting issues of social justice to discussions of #OneHealth and #PlanetaryHealth

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis

In light of the new Lancet report on climate and health:

"one heat-related death every minute throughout the year"

while

"every heat-related death is preventable".

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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As the planet heats and floods intensify, who is most at risk? We're taking advantage of #DayOfClimateAction to share our 2 reports on how #climatechange deepens health inequalities for migrants in Europe how justice should lead adaptation 👇
#ClimateJustice #ClimateActionDay

📢 Our reports on what shapes vulnerability to the impacts of climate change for migrant communities in European cities are here!! Based on scoping reviews - a starting point for empirical research across Europe.

heat: imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...

flood and rain:
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Here is our panel with colleagues from @bcnuej.bsky.social, consider sending your presentation proposal by DEC 5th via the link below, for the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference to be held in Barcelona end of June 2026!

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#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.

What happens now is a vital part of the preparation

Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.

Please spread the word.

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Summer heat deaths in 854 European cities more than tripled due to climate change Focusing on 854 European cities, this study found climate change was responsible for 68% of the 24,400 estimated heat deaths this summer by increasing temperatures by up to 3.6°C. The analysis was le...

Grantham Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, new report:

Climate change driven changes to the temperatures caused 16,469 additional excess deaths across 854 cities, almost 70% of estimated summer deaths.

spiral.imperial.ac.uk/entities/pub...

Flexible Athens-based assistant job in our IMBRACE project - PM me with any questions 🙏

Great opportunity for PhD on housing inequalities in S Europe, especially if you also speak Spanish and Greek.

Deadline: 15 September 2025 Contact: Send your CV to Sònia Vives-Miró at sonia.vives@uib.eu

📌 Details: lnkd.in/eN6fgibS

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

🍇🍽️ Migrant workers feed Europe & keep services running, yet are the most exposed to the #ClimateCrisis, placed in precarity not by origin but by system. An Op-ed in @elpais coauthored by @pkotsila.bsky.social @bcnuej.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

🏠🥵🪭🌡️Una casa sin aire en El Raval o un invernadero en Almería: el calor agudiza la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes.

Los refugios climáticos no están diseñados pensando en las características de los migrantes, indica @pkotsila.bsky.social

www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Una casa sin aire en El Raval o un invernadero en Almería: el calor agudiza la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes Una casa sin aire en El Raval o un invernadero en Almería: el calor agudiza la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes

Temas muy chulos aquí: una investigación en el Raval mostró que donde mejor se sentían los migrantes en verano, no solo por confort térmico sino emocional, no eran refugios climáticos al uso. Eran dos espacios autogestionados/ocupados: un huerto urbano y la escuela Massana www.rtve.es/n/16694090/

Los trabajadores inmigrantes cuando aprieta el calor Las temperaturas extremas se ceban con empleados extranjeros a menudo olvidados en los planes de adaptación climática

Unas reflexiones estos dias de agosto que la mayoría vamos de vacaciones… @bcnuej.bsky.social @imbrace-erc.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social

What We Learned from Migrant Health Experts on Climate Risks - IMBRACE Author Lourenco Melo Lourenço is a research assistant for the IMBRACE project, with a master's degree in Political Ecology from ICTA-UAB.

🔅⚠️☔ We held a 2-day workshop with migrant health experts to unpack climate risks faced by migrants in EU cities. Their insights revealed 9 urgent drivers of vulnerability and the need for justice-centered climate adaptation. #ClimateJustice @pkotsila.bsky.social
👉 imbrace-erc.org/what-we-lear...

This was definitely a highlight of the year work-wise, having amazing people to discuss how we can shape our work in @imbrace-erc.bsky.social and build long-lasting collaborations. Next year we're off to case study cities. But first, August 🌊🏄📖🌗🍹😌

Injustice in Urban Sustainability coauthored by #IMBRACE PI @pkotsila.bsky.social w/ @bcnuej.bsky.social @ianguelovski.bsky.social, M. G. Lamarca and F. Sekulova, is 1 of the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List! www.metropolis.org/news/10-book...

🎬 📉A BBC documentary on #degrowth features our researchers @ianguelovski.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social + affiliated researcher Filka Sekulova! Here's a clip w/ their thoughts on housing, #climatejustice and a future beyond growth @icta-uab.bsky.social 📺 Full video👉 youtu.be/596dU6pDEU8?...

🏘️Un estudio sobre desigualdad en la vivienda en España liderado por nuestros investigadores 👇 Austin Gage Matheney @brianrosa.bsky.social @ianguelovski.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social

We worked with people with a migrant background living in the neighborhood and were hosted by the wonderful Refugio space.

At the @atgender.bsky.social conference tomorrow to present our work with @evacamusb.bsky.social using the Relief Maps method to understand thermal/emotional comfort during heatwaves in Neukölln, Berlin.

Esto es hoy!!

🔥 Europe is facing another deadly #heatwave. But not everyone is equally at risk. Some people are systematically more exposed, more vulnerable—and less visible in the data. A thread 🧵👇

📸A few snapshots from last week's #IMBRACE Arena, which gathered researchers, activists, journalists and community workers to examine immigrants’ climate health vulnerabilities. See who participated here 👀👇 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u... #climatejustice @pkotsila.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social

🌊🌡️ ¿Cómo responden las comunidades ante fenómenos extremos como inundaciones y olas de calor?

El 25/06, @pkotsila.bsky.social del ICTA-UAB, hablará en el Palau Macaya sobre la #resiliencia comunitaria frente al aumento de los riesgos climáticos. @imbrace-erc.bsky.social

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Very excited for this talk which kick-starts our collaboration with Matina in the framework of the @imbrace-erc.bsky.social project. Join us in person at @icta-uab.bsky.social or online!

@bcnuej.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social