{"id":3833,"date":"2019-07-17T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"medellin-shows-how-nature-based-solutions-can-keep-people-and-planet-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/17\/medellin-shows-how-nature-based-solutions-can-keep-people-and-planet-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Medell\u00edn Shows How Nature-Based Solutions Can Keep People And Planet Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the Green\nCorridor project, which won the 2019 Ashden Award for Cooling&nbsp;by Nature Award, supported\nby the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program and in partnership with Sustainable\nEnergy for All,&nbsp;Medell\u00edn\u2019s city authorities transformed the verges of 18 roads and 12\nwaterways into a green paradise that reduces the impact of the heat island\neffect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen we made the\ndecision to plant the 30 green corridors, we focused on areas which most lacked\ngreen spaces,\u201d said Mayor Federico Guti\u00e9rrez. \u201cWith this intervention we have\nmanaged to reduce temperature by more than 2\u00b0C and already citizens feel it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/medellin-shows-how-nature-based-solutions-can-keep-people-and-planet-cool\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment With the Green Corridor project, which won the 2019 Ashden Award for Cooling&nbsp;by Nature Award, supported by the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program and in partnership with Sustainable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}