Report on impact of climate change on Athens sounds alarm

A new report published by the Dianeosis think-tank on Tuesday raises some alarming points about the impact climate change is having on Athens, including raising both the Greek capital's average high and low temperatures by more than 1 degree Celsius in the past 30 years and pushing highs even further in the decades to come.

Tuesday's report is an update of a more comprehensive paper on "Incorporating Climate Change into the Transformation of Greece's Development Model," supervised by Athens University environmental physics and meteorology professor Konstantinos Kartalis, and published by Dianeosis in 2021.

It incorporates data from meteorological stations and climate model simulations, as well as the findings from the more recent literature on the subject of so-called urban heat islands (UHIs), to which Athens is particularly prone due to the prevalence of concrete...