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‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat
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Haris Doukas aims to make Athens more resilient to record temperatures by planting more trees and opening air-conditioned public spaces
Trees, cooling centres, water stations. All three are on Haris Doukas’s mind as he sits in his office-turned-control centre on the top floor of city hall.
Barely six months into the job, the mayor of Athens’s top priority is simple: ensuring that the people of Greece’s capital – mainland Europe’s hottest metropolis – survive the summer. After a June that was the hottest on record, the greater Attica region has already witnessed record-breaking temperatures and wildfires.
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