Climate Truck Demonstrates Human Impact of Global Warming

On Monday 27 April 2026, the Human Adaptation Institute brought its Climate Truck to Place de l'Europe in Luxembourg-Kirchberg, to demonstrate the real world effects climate change can have on the human body.

The Climate Truck consists of a trailer which contains a temperature-controlled room containing treadmills, cognitive challenges and other apparatus which visitors to the installation are encouraged to try out despite the room reaching up to 50°C.

The initiative is intended to raise awareness of the impact of rising global temperatures and the effects it has on the human body. According to the Human Adaptation Institute the purpose of the tasks within the truck is to help people realise what it really means to live and work in a world where temperatures reach 50°C - a daytime temperature estimated to become normal in Europe by the middle of the century.

Visitors are asked to anonymously provide basic information such as age, height and weight before entering the truck and undertaking the physical and mental tasks offered to them. This data will be used as part of a wider study into the impacts of climate change on the human body.

Before taking a group of representatives from the European Investment Bank (EIB) - who, in the past two years, undertook the largest European heat adaptation study on humans - into the installation, Christian Clot, Explorer, Researcher and founder of the Human Adaptation Institute provided examples of the issues the projected temperatures rises are anticipated to cause and detailed how it is important to understand how people of different ages, sex and body type will be impacted.

Christian Clot stressed: “It is important because we do not best understand who will be the people we have to take care of in this kind of situation.“

Edina Cysani, Senior Social and Climate Officer at the EIB, remarked: “One big part of our work is on human resilience and community resilience and part of it is of course climate adaptation preparedness. So, we are trying to increase resilience of communities through different types of projects and this was a big dream of ours to bring the Climate Sense Truck to Luxembourg because we believe that unless people feel it they will not adapt and also the studies say that once people start adapting they will also start mitigating. So, it is an important step.”

As well as the Climate Truck experience, the Human Adaptation Institute also installed an information point and video presentation, allowing visitors to learn about its work and the impact of rising global temperatures caused by climate change.

The Human Adaptation Institute is a private multidisciplinary institute for action research, engagement and support for change whose main themes are human adaptability, behavioural changes and anticipatory adaptations. Its research is carried out in real-life situations, integrating all the ecosystem, physiological and cognitive parameters impacting the notion of adaptation.

Further details about the Climate Truck and the work of the Human Adaptation Institute can be found at https://climatesense.fr.