CSH is contributing to the development of an innovative new mapping tool which will help expand urban tree canopy in the UK.
The Tree Equity Score will utilise a scientific approach to determine the tree canopy cover needed for everyone to experience the health, economic and climate benefits that trees can provide.
Launched in the US last year by American Forests, the Tree Equity Score transformed the field of urban forestry and has helped communities address a dangerous reality: a map of tree cover in US cities is almost always a map of income and race. This systemic lack of tree cover in low-income and neighbourhoods of colour has life-threatening implications in the face of extreme heat, rising air pollution, flooding and other threats fuelled by climate change.
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