Sweet City: a city modelling approach for pollination

-The Municipality has already constructed 1,560 linear meters and 2,810 square meters of sidewalks. In addition, every pedestrian space includes a designated area for plants. This is an effort to prevent or mitigate heat islands within the city [7].
-2,364 individual trees were inventoried, and Curridabat's current carbon stock was calculated at approximately 295,602.17 tons [7].
- "Approximately 12,490 plants were added to the park, including 118 trees belonging to 30 different species, and 12,375 pollinator-friendly plants and herbs belonging to 15 different species" [7].
- The project achieved a reduction of flooding through wetland restoration [7]
- Curitiba focused its efforts to incorporate rational soil use as a climate change mitigation strategy by promoting organic farming practices, recovery riverbeds, avoid soil waterproofing by promoting biodiverse vegetation, recovering organic waste, retaining existing soil, re-incorporating eroded soil as a vital local resource, and rethinking land uses within urban planning [7].
-Sweet City completed an inventory of ornamental plants used in 2017. According to data collected, locally, the existence of domestic gardens and community parks significantly increases the biodiversity of a neighbourhood. It also promotes the introduction of natives plants into the urban space to take advantage of ecosystem services like sustenance for pollinators such as native bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and bats [7].
-Inventories of pollinators have documented 51 species of butterflies belonging to 6 families, 41 subfamilies and 41 genera; 13 morphospecies of bees in 8 different taxa, which are under further revision to achieve a definitive identification; and three species of hummingbirds [7].