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A groundbreaking way to cool down cities
Concordia professor Hashem Akbari is on a mission to change the world.
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He wants to transform our cities’ roofs and pavement into white or lighter colours. White reflects a good portion of the sun’s rays and helps prevent what are known as heat islands — an intense build-up of heat in urban areas.
This afflicts northern cities such as Montreal as much as it does any southern city.
“For me, I don’t measure the success of my work just in terms of the number of research papers published,” Akbari says. “I measure it in terms of number of kilowatt-hours of energy saved.”
In 2010, in collaboration with leading experts and colleagues, Akbari founded the non-profit foundation Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA).
GCCA’s mandate is to work with cities and countries worldwide to adopt relatively inexpensive measures against heat islands. The group cultivates relationships with governments and provides the necessary tools to help with the implementation