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Rare orchids and bees are thriving on London’s green rooftops as city eyes up cooling solutions
euronews (in English)
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05/08/2024
Green roofs bring great biodiversity benefits, but have one key drawback as a cooling solution according to a new study.
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All roofs, the principle is that the energy that is coming from the sun is reflected back
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straight to the atmosphere and to space, right?
00:19
So this energy that is coming in the first place is simply not accumulated in the city,
00:25
in the buildings, in the streets, etc.
00:30
The heat that is stored in the soil on which the plants are will be released in this form
00:35
of sensible heat that you can feel, and they will heat up the air at night, which is what
00:41
we found in our study too.
00:43
Basically green roofs do decrease air temperature, or are expected to do, but on average throughout
00:49
the day, because they heat up also the air at night, you get this kind of null average
00:55
decrease in temperature.
01:01
This is quite a massive green roof, there is a lot of weight that is added to the building
01:05
below it, and behind me you see a roof from another building just across the street, and
01:14
this building, for example, could not withhold such a green roof as of now.
01:20
So it means that it offers very little options in terms of interventions.
01:26
Whitening its roof would actually reflect part of the solar energy again, and reduce
01:30
temperature within the building and also in its surroundings probably, but as you can
01:35
see behind me, the problem with whitening of roofs, and it's often a cost that has to
01:40
be added to it, is the fact that it gets sanded, it gets dirty, and so its reflective
01:45
capacity is lowered, and so you have to make sure to maintain it always as white as possible.
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I think the more green roofs that we can get, especially in these highly urban areas, the
01:57
better.
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We do have some orchids here on the roof, some very rare orchids, I believe one of them
02:03
is very rare and it's the only one currently known in the UK.
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In an environment like this where it is remote, you don't have a lot of footfall, it does
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give an opportunity for some of these rare species to thrive.
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