Study Shows How Tree Pledges Could Transform 10 Global Cities
Luggage Storage experts, Radical Storage conducted a study analyzing the current CO2 levels in the world’s top 10 cities and how the trees they’ve pledged to plant in the future would transform the cities.
Working with a visual artist they created images which show how the cities currently look and how the introduction of their pledged trees could look in the future.
To view the images and read the full analysis please visit: https://travel.radicalstorage.com/how-tree-pledges-will-transform-10-global-cities/
Key Findings
Munich has made the biggest commitment to plant more trees out of the 10 cities we analyzed. The city is estimated to be planting over 10 million trees as part of the international 3 Billion Trees Pledge
9 of the top 10 cities have pledged to plant 3 million trees to combat their carbon emissions
Munich, Barcelona and Paris will have the most trees per km2 in the future making them the leafiest locations of the 10 cities analyzed
Amsterdam has the lowest carbon footprint out of the 10 cities analyzed at 11 Mt CO2
New York has the highest carbon footprint of the 10 cities we analyzed at 233.5 Mt CO2
The right amount of tree cover can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit
It takes 6 trees on average to offset 1 tonne of C02
1 tonne of CO2 is equivalent to the average emissions of one passenger on a return flight from Paris to New York, driving 6000 km in a diesel car or 121,643 smartphones charged
Cities now and in the future
Using the world’s top 10 cities from EuroMonitor International’s Top 100 City Destinations Index, Radical Storage analyzed annual CO2 data from City Carbon Footprints to find out which cities have the biggest carbon footprint.
With research on which cities are leading the way when it comes to combating carbon emissions by pledging to introduce more trees into their ecosystem they were able to identify estimated future tree populations in each city.
The imagery created visualizes the cities with their current carbon emissions and then how they would look if the proposed pledged trees are planted and the positive impact this would have on the cities’ ecosystems.
