Greening a third of the urban area will almost halve the death rate from the heat.

Greening 30% of the urban area will reduce the street temperature by 0.4 °C and almost halve the death rate from summer heat waves. These conclusions were reached by Spanish scientists in the course of modeling scenarios based on the indicators of 93 European cities in 2015. The researchers argue that there will be no need to demolish houses for the sake of new parks, there will be enough space for trees anyway. Most of all, landscaping is now needed in the cities of Southern and Eastern Europe.