Urban Forestry Scale-Up Portfolio: Vanguard Cities

Shared by Brett KenCairnUSDN CDWG
Written By Brett KenCairn
 
 

Publication

2021, Urban Drawdown Initiative & Trees for Community Recovery

Summary

UDI worked with six cities with leading urban forestry programs—Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver-Metro and San Francisco—to formulate “shovel ready” rapid urban forestry scale-up strategies designed to support equity-based community recovery and accelerate protection and enhancement of critical “green infrastructure” essential to managing urban heat extremes and other impacts of extreme weather associated with a changing climate. The portfolio provides a framework for other cities to explore similar scale-up strategies.

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