ABU DHABI, Feb 14 — Popular projects to plant more trees and expand green space in cities may not protect residents from soaring and often deadly heat unless the efforts target those most in need of relief and bring communities closer, researchers and policymakers said. As record numbers of...
The sun rises over a smouldering landscape that was burned by a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire, burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California November 26, 2019. — Reuters pic
“Heat isn’t just a developing-world issue,” Anne-Marie Hitipeuw-Gribnau, chief resilience officer of the Dutch city of The Hague, told the UN World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi this week.Unlike other disasters such as floods, however, casualties from extreme heat draw less attention, she added. It has pledged to increase its tree cover from 22 per cent to 40 per cent by 2040 — a push that has already lowered the city’s temperature by several degrees Celsius, said Red Cross climate advisor Julie Arrighi.
Ensuring that initiatives to cool cities include poorer communities, as well as smarter neighbourhoods, would also build more social cohesion, said Michael Berkowitz, a founding principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst, a nonprofit consultancy.
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