For and from citymakers around the globe

An essay by Edmundo Werna outlining how urban cooling investments in low-income settlements can simultaneously reduce heat exposure and generate local employment, skills and enterprise development.

Facing habitat loss, heat stress and limited space, Paris has managed to make biodiversity a structural element of its urban planning, by incorporating it in building regulation, green roofs and façades, in citizen-led initiatives, and in the shift towards a sponge-city model.

More than 140 people joined the Urban Sustainability Exchange (USE) webinar on urban heat planning on 16 September, bringing together practitioners, researchers and climate adaptation professionals for a focused discussion on how cities can prepare for more extreme heat.