(1) Worldwide, cities produce about 70% of the CO2 present in the atmosphere, while forests and woods are able to absorb 40% of it. Increasing wooded areas within and around cities would multiply the resilience capacities of urban areas and would drastically reduce the production of CO2, thanks to plant-based photosynthesis processes. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210507005177/en/ Bosco Verticale Milano Boeri Studio ph.Dimitar Harizanov " new phase of human history, in which we will finally see a new alliance between forests and cities, two environments that our species has always kept separate; one as the maximum expression of artifice, and the other as the maximum expression of naturalness.