End: 21 Feb 2020, Friday
Trees for Liveable Cities | Delivering Effective Green Infrastructure
Trees for Liveable Cities: Delivering Effective Green Infrastructure is a forum that will highlight the benefits and challenges of green infrastructure and consider how the community can contribute.
The Institute of Australian Consulting Arboriculturists (IACA) committee invites you to join them for a one-day forum on 21 February 2020 at the Harold Park Community Hall in the Tramsheds, Sydney, New South Wales.
Trees for Liveable Cities: Delivering Effective Green Infrastructure is a forum that will highlight the benefits and challenges of green infrastructure and consider how arborists, planners, architects, landscape architects, developers, engineers, urban designers, politicians and the general community can actively contribute to improving urban forest canopy.
The Australian Government, in announcing its Cities Agenda in 2015, recognised green infrastructure as a key component for liveable cities. In 2018, the 1st World Forum on Urban Forests, an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, issued a Call for Action. The Call for Action noted that urban forests help attain many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
In 2018, the NSW Government announced a goal to achieve 40 percent urban forest canopy over Greater Sydney by 2030.