Beyond the Headlines

Future-proofing our cities against record-breaking temperatures


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This summer has beaten temperature records. Throughout July, Europe sweltered in baking heat. Paris hit 42 degrees centigrade, Berlin 40 and London 39.

It is projected that at current rates of climate change many cities across the world will be uninhabitable by 2070 due to the heat. 

Such extremes will become increasingly common until it’s the norm not the exception. So what can we do in the face of increasing temperatures?

Host James Haines-Young asks how we can heatproof our cities. He speaks to Professor Shipworth, Professor of Energy and the Built Environment at University College London and Karim El Jisr from See Nexus who is already living in a city of the future, built to withstand summer temperatures in the UAE without pumping out masses of Co2.

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 Hitting climate target like landing man on the moon, says Danish ambassador to UAE
Planting 350 million trees, Ethiopia strikes at the roots of climate change
Temperature records tumble as extreme heatwaves become new reality
You think this is hot? The US heatwave has nothing on the UAE summer
 

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