1. General information
2. Objectives of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
Armenia's climate can be described as highland continental with large variations between summer highs and winter lows. The country's capital, Yerevan, experienced for the first time in 2018 a record temperature of 42 degrees Celsius. Floods also represent a risk for the city capital, and the economy of the country depends heavily on the city. As a response to the many challenges Armenia and its cities has yet to encounter, ATP initiated planting sites throughout Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, as well as in other major cities. ATP aims to focus on the following aspects:
1. To have green areas in cities to protect people against pollutants and dust, and to provide shade and lower temperatures caused by hot summers, traffic, concrete heat and greenhouse gases.
2. To clean the air that the Armenians breathe of carbon dioxide but also to beautify a major part of Yerevan.
3. To plant a variety of climatically suitable seedlings in a given location to help maintain the area's biodiversity and resilience.
4. To engage in an environmental and community building planting program in different urban areas of Yerevan.
ATP’s mission is to assist the Armenian people in using trees to improve their standard of living and protect the environment, guided by the need to promote self-sufficiency, aid those with the fewest resources first, and conserve the indigenous ecosystem. ATP’s three major programs are tree planting, environmental education, and sustainable development initiatives. (1,2,3)
1. To have green areas in cities to protect people against pollutants and dust, and to provide shade and lower temperatures caused by hot summers, traffic, concrete heat and greenhouse gases.
2. To clean the air that the Armenians breathe of carbon dioxide but also to beautify a major part of Yerevan.
3. To plant a variety of climatically suitable seedlings in a given location to help maintain the area's biodiversity and resilience.
4. To engage in an environmental and community building planting program in different urban areas of Yerevan.
ATP’s mission is to assist the Armenian people in using trees to improve their standard of living and protect the environment, guided by the need to promote self-sufficiency, aid those with the fewest resources first, and conserve the indigenous ecosystem. ATP’s three major programs are tree planting, environmental education, and sustainable development initiatives. (1,2,3)
Quantitative targets
Targeting 1 district of Yerevan, 6 parks, and 2 schools as selected sites for planting: St. Zoravar Andranik park, the Holy Trinity church park, Love and Faith park, Youth park, Maternity park, Avedisian school, School N. 190
Targeting approx. 130,000 people affected by the intervention
Planting over 90,000 trees specifically in Yerevan
Including 9 types of trees in the planting action (2)
Targeting approx. 130,000 people affected by the intervention
Planting over 90,000 trees specifically in Yerevan
Including 9 types of trees in the planting action (2)
Monitoring indicators defined
Number of people benefiting from the action
Number of sites prepared for planting
Number of trees aimed to be planted
Number of species to be planted (2)
Number of sites prepared for planting
Number of trees aimed to be planted
Number of species to be planted (2)
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Climate change adaptation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Climate change adaptation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Climate change mitigation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Climate change mitigation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What types of conservation goals are / were defined for the NBS intervention?
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Implementation activities
Every year ATP engages alongside volunteers and NGOs in planting trees in large areas in cities as well as in rural locations. The trees are grown in local nurseries ( nurseries in Karin and Khachpar villages, with others coming from the Mirak Family Reforestation Nursery, Keti, Aghavnavank, and Margahovit) and the community tree planting happens over 2 seasons: spring and autumn. The planting is based on volunteering based but temporary workers also take part. The planting project has the following schedule:
1. First the team searches for locations for plantings and at the same time they respond to requests for trees.
2. The planting season begins
3. The teams return to sites to check on the trees and offer professional advice. Monitoring visits follow every planting. The team return to the site soon after the planting to ensure the trees take root. They visit all the sites from time to time but priority is given to newly planted sites and 1 year-old sites because they are in the most critical period of the planting
process. Older sites are visited less often since the trees there are already out of that critical period, but those sites continue to remain in their plans. (1)
1. First the team searches for locations for plantings and at the same time they respond to requests for trees.
2. The planting season begins
3. The teams return to sites to check on the trees and offer professional advice. Monitoring visits follow every planting. The team return to the site soon after the planting to ensure the trees take root. They visit all the sites from time to time but priority is given to newly planted sites and 1 year-old sites because they are in the most critical period of the planting
process. Older sites are visited less often since the trees there are already out of that critical period, but those sites continue to remain in their plans. (1)
Type of NBS project
3. NBS domains, ES and scale
4. Governance and financing
5. Innovation
Type of innovation
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
The idea of planting trees in the syestem implemented by ATP is completely new for Yerevan and Armenia.
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
In 2021 planting locations included Makenis, Akhrapradzor, Vardenis, Geghhovit, Mets Masrik, Sarukhan, Gavar, Madina, Lanjaghbyur and Gegharkunik communities.(4)
