Cities need to build resilience towards increasingly common heatwaves
(WorldNews Netherlands)

The coronavirus has exposed elderly citizens as a high-risk group, but an increasingly warmer Europe poses yet another serious threat. More Europeans are dying from heatwaves than from all other natural hazards combined. We need to do more to prepare and adapt our cities for the future, concludes Sweco in the latest of its Urban Insight reports. Extreme heat events will increase in...