By 2020, according to United Nations and European Union reports, 75% of Europe's population will be living in cities -that's around 365 million citizens. The majority of our cities are hot, dry, polluted and impermeable and increasingly densely populated. The pressure for new development means hard, impermeable surfaces are replacing urban green space and natural habitats. At the same time, climate change is bringing more frequent and extreme weather events such as summer storms, flash flooding and heatwaves.New developments must be resilient. But we also need to retrofit our existing building stock -to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This challenge is also a
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