The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad held a workshop entitled (The Importance of Afforestation in Reducing Heat) in the presence of the Center’s professors and employees. The symposium, presented by Ola Dawad, a teacher at the Center, aimed to spread the culture of afforestation and the mechanism for distributing it in public parks and homes as it helps improve the atmosphere and reduce heat by 2-8 degrees according to the vegetative density, humidity percentage, and number of residential units.

Assistant Lecturer Kawthar Hassan discussed the environmental and climatic importance of afforestation, in addition to its economic importance, the types of perennial and evergreen trees that help reduce the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and purify oxygen were discussed.

The workshop reached a set of recommendations that emphasized the necessity of spreading the culture of afforestation in various media outlets, educating citizens about its importance and benefits, and activating the supervisory role to reduce the phenomenon of encroachment on green spaces and imposing fines on trespassers and violators who cut down trees in vain, in addition to increasing afforestation work around buildings and shops, residential areas, sidewalks, and central islands, in conjunction with raising the level of agricultural maintenance work, irrigation of plants on roads, and pruning work.

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