CUBASOLAR international workshop addresses sustainable human settlements

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 20 (ACN) The status of sustainable energy communities was the object of discussion, reflection and suggestions among Cuban and foreign professionals attending the 15th International Workshop of the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect (CUBASOLAR).

ScD Dania Gonzalez Couret, from Havana’s Jose Antonio Echeverria Technological University (CUJAE), raised a first controversial subject, namely the fact that 60% of the Cuban population lives in urban areas and, therefore, the need that they adapt to global warming through an understandably required characterization, classification and evaluation of morphological types.

The specialist referred to microclimate monitoring in case studies, which takes into account factors during construction such as temperature orientation, road width, vegetation and cost-benefit analyses with a view to making cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable based on available technologies without having to import anything, "because what we have is enough, we just have to do better”, she stressed.