A lily pond near the Marina Bay Financial Centre. Singapore’s climate-change problems are compounded by the Urban Heat Island effect.
Photographer: Sam Kang Li/Bloomberg
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This Is How Singapore Keeps Its Cool as the City Heats Up
- City-state turns to building design, technology to reduce heat
- Singapore is warming twice as fast as the world average
Singapore is more focused than most places on finding ways to keep cool.
Perhaps that’s understandable. The Southeast Asian financial center has been heating up twice as fast as the world average over the past six decades, according to government data. And that’s in a city just 85 miles north of the equator, where daily temperatures already average around 27 degrees Celsius (81 Fahrenheit) year-round.