What is the recovery of green areas about?

Climate change is one of the most important challenges of this decade since it represents a potential risk to health and sustainable development. Diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory problems, neurological disorders, among others, are partly responsible for a large percentage of deaths in the world.

These risk factors are linked in many cases to sedentary lifestyles and environmental pollution, urban populations are exposed to pollution levels higher than those established by the World Health Organization's standards for air quality. On the other hand, urbanization and work activities lead to changes in lifestyles the use of means of transportation such as automobiles have an impact on the reduction of physical activity.

World organizations recognized the importance of sustainable development, which forced governments to take measures to address this problem through strategies that would turn cities into sustainable environments, prioritizing public health and protecting the environment.

The least favored population groups normally live-in areas with few green spaces, so recovering these places with the construction of recreational areas and planting trees seek to reduce these social inequalities and provide additional health benefits.

Increasing the number and quality of green areas allows us to mitigate the polluting elements that contribute to global warming and cause early deaths due to atmospheric pollution. Each strategically planted tree provides shade, reducing the carbon emissions generated by electric energy companies by reducing the demand for air conditioning.

Similarly, the construction of parks, green areas, and streams bring great benefits to the health of the inhabitants of the environment, since it motivates them to walk and exercise outdoors, freeing them from complications related to physical inactivity, so investing in this type of strategy promotes health and minimizes the impact generated by climate change.

Both governments and the health sector play an important role when it comes to encouraging and implementing policies aimed at protecting the environment and building green cities, improving air and water quality, as well as designing environmentally friendly housing and means of transportation, together with the distribution of land for their use, are the sensitive points that every society must demand from its leaders to make it a priority on the public agenda.