{"id":15595,"date":"2012-10-16T06:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/cities-can-get-greener-by-2030-as-new-urban-areas-built-un\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T06:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:01:51","slug":"cities-can-get-greener-by-2030-as-new-urban-areas-built-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cities-can-get-greener-by-2030-as-new-urban-areas-built-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities can get greener by 2030 as new urban areas built -UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Most urban areas of 2030 not yet built &#8211; U.N. study<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Means chance to include parks, trees in city plans<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Most city growth projected for China, India<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alister Doyle<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>OSLO, Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s urban areas will more<br \/>\nthan double in size by 2030, presenting an opportunity to build<br \/>\ngreener and healthier cities, a U.N. study showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Simple planning measures such as more parks, trees or roof<br \/>\ngardens could make cities less polluted and help protect plants<br \/>\nand animals, especially in emerging nations led by China and<br \/>\nIndia where city growth will be fastest, it said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rich biodiversity can exist in cities and is extremely<br \/>\ncritical to people&#8217;s health and well-being,&#8221; wrote Thomas<br \/>\nElmqvist of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, scientific editor<br \/>\nof the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s urban population is expected to surge from just<br \/>\nover 3.5 billion now to 4.9 billion by 2030, according to the<br \/>\nassessment by the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the area to be covered by cities will<br \/>\nexpand by 150 percent, it said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Most urban areas of 2030 not yet built &#8211; U.N. study * Means chance to include parks, trees in city plans * Most city growth projected for China, India By Alister Doyle OSLO, Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s urban areas will more than double in size by 2030, presenting an opportunity to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}