Planting more trees in cities could reduce heat-related deaths by about a third, according to a study in The Lancet. Heat deaths were investigated in 93 cities in Europe, including Zurich, Geneva and Basel.
The model calculations showed that planting should be increased to approximately 30 percent of the area in cities. As a result, the temperature in the hot summer months would drop by an average of 0.4 degrees Celsius.
According to the study, trees currently cover just under 15 percent of the acreage in urban regions in Europe.
The study examined 6,700 deaths directly related to high temperatures in 93 cities in Europe in 2015. A third of them could have been prevented by planting appropriate trees, write the scientists led by Tamar Iungman of the Institute for Global Health in Barcelona. . (aeg/sda/afp)
Source: Blick
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