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Design Guidebook: Maximizing Climate Adaptation Benefits with Trees
This document provides design guidance and explores opportunities for using trees to maximize climate adaptation benefits to local communities throughout Metro Vancouver. As a companion to the Urban Forest Climate Adaptation Framework, this guidebook provides illustrations and additional technical guidance to support the design of tree plantings to maximize benefits to local communities throughout Metro Vancouver.
Intact Forests, Safe Communities: Reducing Community Climate Risks through Forest Protection and a Paradigm Shift in Forest Management
A new independent report commissioned by Sierra Club BC looks at the relationship between forest management and severe climate impacts expected across B.C. It shows that governments can mitigate climate-related disasters like flooding, droughts, fires and heat waves by swiftly reforming B.C.’s forestry practices, applying Indigenous knowledge to forest-related decisions, and protecting and restoring intact forests before the climate crisis worsens.
Tree Seed Working Group News Bulletin: Canadian Forest Genetics Association
Tree planting promises and their role in helping to capture carbon have garnered a great deal of attention. It certainly is more generally acceptable to considerations of "reduction" that may impact our economic growth.