Soraya Segu

Soraya Segu, an architect and urban planner who led Monterrey’s heat work, and Eugenia Carbo, Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer who coordinates trees and cooling pilots, join Umaru Fofana, a journalist reporting from Freetown’s informal settlements. They discuss day-to-day heat adaptation, why cities overheat, on-the-ground coping in Krubay, reflective roof pilots, tree counting and barriers like funding and political will.