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Planting more trees could reduce premature heat-related deaths in European cities by a third (theconversation.com)
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Our research calculated the death rates of urban inhabitants across 93 European cities between June and August 2015.

In 2015, Gothenburg in Sweden recorded no premature UHI deaths, while urban heat was responsible for 32 premature deaths per 100,000 people in the Romanian city Cluj-Napoca.

Tree planting programmes must therefore encourage residents to plant trees.

So increasing tree cover to 30% may be challenging for some European cities.

Incorporating urban green infrastructure into cities should make them more resilient to climate change.

Preserving existing trees and complementing tree planting schemes with other measures that reduce the intensity of UHIs, such as reducing car use, are similarly important.

Our study suggests that by increasing tree coverage, premature UHI deaths in European cities can be reduced.

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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

You make a table with three columns. In the first column, you collect criteria you want to compare on. In the second column you put the values for the criteria as fulfilled by "Sweden". In the third column you put the values for the criteria as fulfilled by "Romania". Preferably you put good headings in the first line (like "Sweden" for the column with the values for "Sweden" and "Romania" in the column with the values for "Romania").

That's how you compare Sweden to Romania.

Can I help you any further?