Caro Kyllmann

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Correspondent at Clean Energy Wire - all things climate adaptation and water, sustainable construction, grids and electricity markets. Trail running when not. Latest: Climate resilience in the sporting world - live from LA🏙️

Car-free Sunday as part of CicLAvia

Council Chambers at LA City Hall, a few minutes ahead of meeting.

Average surface temperatures at midday in the summer months of June, July, and August from 2013 to 2024 for the greater Berlin area. The figure shows how surface temperatures differ in built-up and undeveloped areas. Image: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

Shading infrastructure on the banks of the Seine river in Paris help keep residents cool in summer. Photo: Valentin Chesneau / City of Paris.

The Floating Office Rotterdam is designed to be largely self-sufficient and “future proof” - rising and falling with the tide, rising sea levels and floods pose no threat. Photo: CLEW / Kyllmann.

Rotterdam's floating office rises and falls with the tide in the Rijnhaven harbour basin.

Almost of third of Germany's buildings are poorly insulated, while energy efficiency renovations lag behind.