Goal setting and impacts delivery
No, although benefits were delivered in all the 3 key areas, but in the planning phase, the project did not aim to address issues in all the 3 key priority areas.
Please specify the achievements of the project goals
Climate action:
1. Lowered local temperature: "Trees have multiple benefits in urban areas which include cleaner air, improved physical and mental health, water conservation, increasing wildlife habitat, CO2 storage and sequestration and lower temperatures through shade." (1)
2. Enhanced carbon sequestration: "Trees have multiple benefits in urban areas which include cleaner air, improved physical and mental health, water conservation, increasing wildlife habitat, CO2 storage and sequestration and lower temperatures through shade." (1)
3. Improved air quality: "Trees have multiple benefits in urban areas which include cleaner air, improved physical and mental health, water conservation, increasing wildlife habitat, CO2 storage and sequestration and lower temperatures through shade." (1)
4. Increased green space area: "Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city’s equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more livable environment." (1)
5. Increased number of species present: "Residents can choose from a list of 19 native and desert-adapted trees including the Texas olive, Chinese red pistache and Chilean mesquites." (1)
Social justice and community:
1. Improved liveability: "Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city’s equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more livable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths." (1)
2. Increased opportunities for social interaction: “We need shade, but trees also suck up carbon dioxide, create places to socialize and healthier, happier neighborhoods.” (1)
3. Increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces: "Each household also gets a tree kit – a 100ft hose, irrigation timer and instrument to measure the soil pH and moisture, as well as written care instructions." (1)
4. Increased visibility and opportunity for marginalised groups or indigenous peoples: "The Community Canopy Grant is intended to improve tree canopy coverage in neighborhoods in Qualifying Census Tracts throughout Phoenix." (2)
5. Improved physical health: "Trees have multiple benefits in urban areas which include cleaner air, improved physical and mental health, water conservation, increasing wildlife habitat, CO2 storage and sequestration and lower temperatures through shade." (1)
6. Increased knowledge of locals about local nature: "Each household also gets a tree kit – a 100ft hose, irrigation timer and instrument to measure the soil pH and moisture, as well as written care instructions." (1)
7. Improved community safety to climate-related hazards: “Our goal is to change the inequity and create enough shade to provide residents and passersby reprieve from the heat." (1)
