Beating the Heat
A new UNEP handbook on urban planning is intended to help reduce and avoid urban heat islands. Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities was launched on November 3rd 2021 at COP26.
Wooden buildings as carbon sinks
Wooden buildings reduce carbon emissions massively, a new meta-study shows. We talked with one of the authors, Ali Amiri from the Aalto University in Finland.