Reuters: The world's urban areas will more than double in size by 2030, presenting an opportunity to build greener and healthier cities, a U.N. study showed on Monday.
Simple planning measures such as more parks, trees or roof gardens could make cities less polluted and help protect plants and animals, especially in emerging nations led by China and India where city growth will be fastest, it said.
"Rich biodiversity can exist in cities and is extremely critical to people's health and well-being," wrote......
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Cities can get greener by 2030 as new urban areas built -UN
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 15th, 2012
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