Bucharest Community Foundation: The Capital Urgently Needs a Climate Resilience Strategy. 500,000 Lei Through the Environmental Platform for Bucharest for Projects that Increase the City’s Resilience

Climate change in recent years is placing Romania under increasingly intense thermal stress, and Bucharest is becoming more vulnerable to heatwaves, which lead to urban heat islands amplified by dense construction, excessive asphalt, and lack of vegetation—as well as to storms and other phenomena, according to the State of the Environment in Bucharest 2025 report published by the Bucharest Community Foundation. The summer of 2024 was the hottest in the Capital’s history, with an average temperature of 27.43°C—5.97°C higher than the average between 1980 and last year—and temperature differences of up to 8°C between the city ce...