Cooling cities through science
Prof. Gerhard Schmitt discusses why it is important to understand a city’s sources of heat to better address the heat challenge and share findings from Cooling Singapore to cool cities.
A city that is heating up, like a person with fever, needs to firstly identify its mains sources of heat to arrive at a more sustainable, long-term solution. In “The Climate Conversations", Prof. Gerhard Schmitt, lead principal investigator of the external pageCooling Singapore project, highlights the importance of tackling heat at its source, such as improving the efficiency of industry to reduce heat emissions.
He also shares findings from the Cooling Singapore project, like how design considerations such as urban design, the choice of building materials, greening and promoting renewable, clean energy can make a difference.
While local governmental agencies are already making positive steps in this direction, he believes that the Cooling Singapore project led by the Singapore-ETH Centre can provides a broad scientific base on environmental system, water system and energy system to support the joint endeavours of cooling the city.
Listen to episode eight of The Climate Conversations
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