Uploaded on 2020-07-12 by Melanie Ponte

1. I live in Caracas, Venezuela, where approximately 8 million people live with a dry tropical climate and full vegetation; between the months of April and May the temperature in the capital can reach 30 to 31 degrees. In my place of residence, houses and vegetation predominate, with many trees and green spaces. The effects of the urban heat islands are evident in the canyon of the city where there is pollution from cars and buses; an increase of urban constructions and a giant mobilization of citizens to factories and jobs. 2. Building bicycle lanes and promoting the use of bicycles as a means of transportation would reduce the heat coming from cars, buses and subways; implement laws for the protection of the environment; decentralize companies and industries, so that the population does not only gather in the capital, reducing traffic, transit and density. Important: implement the use of renewable energy. 3. In my community there are policies to preserve the environment, however it is not common to use bicycles or renewable energy (even in the city center). Although measures have been put in place to reduce urban heat islands, in my opinion none have been well implemented.