Climate Mitigation Strategies: The Use of Cool Pavements

Recent statistical reports highlight an accelerating phenomenon of radical urbanization, and the forecasts estimate that within next ten years, about 70% world’s population will be located in urban areas, compared with 54% currently living there. This result increase constructed volume, foreseeable adverse effects on climate, environment, residents’ health. The resulting growth emissions use energy resources, combined changes soil condition absorption characteristics, leads to a focus issues related sustainable development cities. anthropogenic activity influence materials’ surface air temperatures, contributing average atmospheric temperatures near earth’s surface, consequent generation heat islands (UHIs). paper aims examine, neighborhood context, mitigation strategies implemented through application cool materials surfaces. Through simulations carried out case study, support software such as ENVI-met tools for Grasshopper Ladybug, observation data evolution other microclimatic parameters, outcomes obtained pavements were analyzed. Finally, comparison between two scenarios, current projected, allowed evaluation overall efficiency proposed interventions.