The Million Trees NYC campaign reached its goal this week with the planting of a Chinese Elm in the Bronx neighborhood. The city is also mapping each of its trees (click here to see), an example that São Paulo is now following with the Viva Floresta app (which is generating this map here).
Launched in 2007 by then mayor Michael Bloomberg, the campaign achieved its goal two years ahead of schedule. But planting will continue at an ever-increasing pace, as part of the city’s goal to combat climate change: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.
And the success of the initiative among residents is so great that the ceremony to plant the 1,000,000th tree will pit two political enemies side by side, current mayor Bill de Biasio and former mayor Bloomberg, creator of the initiative, as The New York Times reports.
How about planting a successful campaign like this Fernando Haddad? Click here to access the São Paulo mayor’s Twitter account and create a tweet that starts with @Haddad_Fernando #vivafloresta let’s make him aware of the Viva Floresta app and take over our effort to map every tree in SP!
Trees have been planted in streets, parks, public spaces and private properties. Other US cities have started similar campaigns, such as Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. But none as ambitious as New York’s.
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“New York is the world leader when it comes to urban forests,” says Mitchell J. Silver, director of the New York City Council’s parks division. In addition to city hall, the campaign had support from the beginning from NGOs such as the New York Restoration Project , founded by actress Bette Midler.
“Trees create shade and prevent the Sun from heating the urban pavement, creating the effect of heat islands. And mature trees have a big impact on sequestering carbon from the atmosphere,” says Denise Hoffman Brandt, director of the Landscape Architecture Program at City College of New York.