What is HAQR?
San Francisco is particularly vulnerable to extreme heat events and wildfire smoke events because our buildings, infrastructure, services, and communities were not designed for extreme temperatures and poor air quality. Any process to effectively address the public health impacts and build resilience to extreme heat and wildfire smoke must include the participation of community, public, private, and academic partners.
This includes organizations that:
- Represent, engage, or work closely with communities most vulnerable to the impacts; • Plan or execute emergency preparedness and response activities;
- Provide health care or other community services;
- Build, regulate, or maintain housing and other facilities;
- Plan or manage open space, green infrastructure or other public works that can reduce urban heat islands; or,
- Deliver and maintain the services that sustain San Francisco’s workforce and economy.
HAQR is a cross-sectional initiative to bring these partners together to identify, plan, and implement comprehensive medium-to-long-term adaptation strategies.
- For more information about how extreme heat is expected to impact San Francisco, please visit Extreme Heat and Health.
- For more information about how wildfire smoke is expected to impact San Francisco, please visit Wildfire Smoke and Health.
- For more resources available for extreme heat and wildfire smoke resilience, please visit our Climate and Health website.
Documents
HAQR Program Documents
The Heat and Air Quality Implementation Plan represents two years of the Heat and Air Quality Resilience Project working with community, public, private and academic partners. This plan establishes a framework to address current local extreme heat and wildfire smoke events while preparing for future ones. Implementation plan strategies are organized by Resilience Pathways. Resilience Pathways refer to the mechanism that connects a specific strategy to increases in community resilience to extreme heat and/or wildfire smoke. The Resilience Pathways in this document are:
- San Francisco’s buildings are adapted to reduce exposure to extreme heat and poor air quality.
- San Francisco’s exterior built and natural environments are adapted to reduce exposure to extreme heat and poor air quality.
- San Francisco is made more resilient to extreme heat and wildfire smoke through equitable emergency preparedness, response, and resilience actions.
- San Francisco is made more resilient to both current and future extreme heat and wildfire smoke events through City services that can predict and adapt to climate-related stressors.
All-Hands Meetings
HAQR hosts quarterly "All-Hands" meetings to bring our community, public, private, and academic partners together to build connections, provide program updates, share resources, and identify lessons learned.
All Hands Meeting 1 Agenda:
- HAQR Updates
- Introductions to Implementation Teams
- Implementation Teams Activities and Schedule
- Next Steps
All Hands Meeting 2 Agenda
- Review of Previous Meeting
- Review of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Wave
- HAQR Updates
- Implementation Team Prioritization Process
All Hands Meeting 3 Agenda
- HAQR Updates
- Review of Implementation Teams
- Existing Buildings | Feedback
- Green Infrastructure | Feedback
All Hands Meeting 4 Agenda:
- HAQR Updates
- Spotlight: Resilience Hubs
- Amee Raval, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Daniel Homesy, Neighborhood Empowerment Network
- Implementation Team Updates
- Next Steps
All Hands Meeting 5 Agenda
- HAQR Updates
- Presentation: San Francisco Environment Climate Action Plan
- Implementation Team Check Ins
- Next Steps
All Hands Meeting 6 Agenda
- HAQR Implementation Plan Progress
- PCORI Updates
- Preparations for the 2022 Extreme Heat | Widlfire Smoke Season
- Aclima Air Quality Data Release
- Presentation: Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Cool Buildings Solutions
- Dr. Max Wei and Dr. Ronnen Levinson, "Cal-THRIVES: A California Toolkit for Heat Resilience in Underserved Environments"
All Hands Meeting 7 Agenda
- Introductions
- Updates and Announcements
- Heat and Air Quality Implementation Plan
- Evaluation of HAQR Phase 1
- Transition to HAQR Phase 2
All Hands Meeting 8 Agenda
- Updates and Announcements
- Presentation: HAQR Phase 2 Planning to Implementation
- Presentation: PCORI Findings
- Dr. Neeta Thakur "Climate Survey Final Results"
All Hands Meeting 9 Agenda
- Updates and Announcements
- HAQR All-Hands Presentations
- Duane Poe, PHEPR, Community Branch
- Benny Zank, SFE, Climate Equity Hub
- Michael Liao and Charles Yeh, NICOS, Chinatown Disaster Response Project
- John Swae, Bureau of Urban Forestry, Justice, Jobs and Trees: Inflation Reduction Act
- Resources
- Polls