Natural cooling: how we are better measuring the local value of nature for urban cooling

Every year we at ONS publish our UK natural capital accounts. These include an economic value of the benefits that the UK’s natural resources provide to people in the UK, which would otherwise risk not being factored into decision-making. In today's blog Oliver Mann looks at how we have improved our measurement of ‘urban heat regulation’ – the role that nature plays in cooling our built-up areas.

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