‘Beat the Heat’: UN Challenges Cities to Add Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Crisis

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By Olivia RosaneNov 16, 2022, 11:16 pm241 pts
If you’ve ever sweated through an urban heat wave, it won’t be hard for you to understand why cities are incredibly vulnerable to the climate crisis. Cities are heating twice as fast as the global average, and by 2100, they could be a mean of four degrees Celsius hotter than they are now. To help turn…

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