How Athens is adapting to climate change

In recent weeks I’ve written about how to cool cities, and how to reduce the risk of urban flooding. The kinds of adaptation measures I described in both those posts are visible in a city that’s been in the climate news recently: Athens. Greece’s capital is currently preoccupied with fires to the north, but other climate disasters also trouble the city. It is very built up and has too little green space – the lowest per capita green space of any city in the EU in fact. This exacerbates the urban...