Extreme heat events are affecting natural assets and built infrastructure as well as individuals in cities and rural settlements across North America  . Key urban infrastructure systems  are interdependent and susceptible to cascading impacts  . Urban social inequality and systemic racism has led to disproportionately higher exposure to urban heat island effects in low-income and minority neighbourhoods in US cities, due in part, to less green space and tree cover to offset heat retained in the built environment . In the rural context, extreme heat contributes to migration out of small communities; for example, see cases reported in Mexico . Extreme heat events pose a
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