The Handbook for Carbon-smart Urban green summarizes the key messages of the multidisciplinary CO-CARBON project. The handbook is intended for experts, decision-makers, and anyone interested in how natural carbon sinks can be maintained and expanded in urban areas. Achieving cities’ carbon neutrality goals requires not only reducing emissions but also strengthening carbon sinks. One key approach is to increase natural carbon sinks in urban green spaces—such as urban forests, parks, street plantings, and yards. Investing in sinks also yields other benefits: it mitigates heat waves and urban flooding and enhances well-being and biodiversity. Carbon sinks are, therefore, worth preserving and expanding.
Here you can download the Handbook as a pdf: Carbon-smart Urban Green Handbook.
Starting photo: Mikko Raskinen, Aalto University