Countering climate change: How cities are becoming more climate resilient

Five ways that cities are adapting to extreme heat Heat waves are more frequent and more intense, and city dwellers are being hit hardest. Here's how cities are becoming more resilient. Brian Banks Corporate Knights

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Along with focusing on city streets and pavement, planners and designers are also embracing a more holistic approach, encompassing site plans and building designs, to improve and set standards for maintaining a certain level of “thermal comfort” in public spaces. It’s a methodology that considers four factors that determine how comfortable people feel in an outdoor setting: air temperature, radiant temperature, wind and humidity. Those variables are then combined to calculate a site’s score on a thermal climate index.

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