Achieving Climate Resilence through Strategic Greening
Target Green Infrastructure
Plant, grow and track 1 million trees city-wide under climate ready cities approach to urban greening using nature-based solutions to mitigate climate risks
Target Planting Areas
Planting to take place along major and secondary roads, around key water sources, mangroves and other critical infrastructure as well as targeted neighborhood spaces
Ensuring Tree Survival
while creating more localized project ownership to enhance tree survival but also demands for trees in urban spaces
Climate Ambassador Program
The Climate Action Ambassador program encourages residents to have conversations and share input on how our community can be healthy, sustainable, and resilient. Through this program, Ambassadors will gain knowledge to engage with their communities on topics such as climate change, equity, renewable energy, clean transportation, and more to help develop an equity-centered climate action plan
If you are interested in becoming a Climate Action Ambassador please fill out this sign-up form to access our Climate Action Ambassador Toolkit and join discussions with others on the topics below.
Being a Climate Action Ambassador is a flexible commitment. We ask that you try to host at least three meetings within your community to gain feedback on how #FreetownTheTreetown can be healthy, sustainable, and resilient. These meetings can happen in any format that you deem appropriate for your community
Why not buy a gift that is good for everyone. There are no air miles, no packaging, this is a gift that will never be the wrong size or colour, will not end up in landfill. This is a gift that is actually good for the earth.
By planting a tree for a loved one, or planting family trees, you are marking the occasion in a big way. A tree or a few trees planted in your name is a gift that just keeps growing. To gift a tree that will make a woodland of the future, is a gift completely free from guilt, an eco-friendly gift that is good for the planet, and such a small way to make a big difference. Actually, this is a special gift for so many occasions: a birthday, an anniversary, in memory of a special person or a pet, to celebrate a wedding day, to mark a retirement, or just to say ‘thank you’.
Simply select a single tree (or as many as you want), choose a certificate and make it truly special with your own message. We will plant the tree with care and send via email, our tree pack: an art inspired personalised certificate, the treelover pledge and a photo of your tree or trees being planted with a simple message in the picture.
See our shop for other gifts you could add, printed certificates, tree tags, woodland flowers and bulbs to plant with the tree.
Trees are an investment. How well that investment grows depends on several factors including, the type of tree planted, its location and the care provided. Getting your new tree off to a healthy start will help the tree mature to its full size and ensures it will provide environmental, economic, and social benefits throughout its lifetime. The aim is to harness the momentum of #FreetownTheTreeTownCampaign, the awareness raising that was built about trees with local community members to create more ownership and sustainability for trees and green infrastructure
Intended Results: Planting will directly impact communities with long-term benefits including:
localised heat stress reduction,
increased rainfall water management and decreased flooding,
