Greening Sydney 2030
Greening cities involves installing new parks, rooftop gardens, and green roofs and planting trees along the streets. Read how the City of Sydney has launched its Greening Sydney 2030 strategy to adapt to climate change and enhance the city’s resilience to likely impacts.
Urbanisation and climate change require cities to find new solutions to maintain and improve the quality of life. Increasing population pressures and limited land and resources, along with climate change, is causing city authorities to showcase how their city can become resilient to climate change while simultaneously increasing the wellbeing of residents, attractiveness of open spaces, the biodiversity of neighbourhoods.
Greening Sydney 2030 strategy
The Greening Sydney 2030 strategy outlines a series of actions to enhance adaptation and resilience, including:
- Greening laneways, roofs, and developments: The city will create more green roofs and walls and find new creative ways to green its concrete laneways and narrow streets. The city will amend its planning controls to increase the adoption of and use of green roofs in new developments and in retrofits
- Making access to greening equitable: The city will analyse each street, park, and property to confirm the extent of greening and canopy cover distribution. The data will be used to prioritise fair access to greenery and invest in areas that need it the most
- Introducing Green Factor Scores: The city will introduce Green Factor Scores that evaluate and quantifies the amount and quality of urban greening a project provides. All projects will need to achieve a required score, based on the type of development, location, and other site considerations
- Establishing a Greening Sydney Fund: The fund will green private land through programmes and grants that encourage residents to plant new trees, install green roofs, and make other contributions to increase green cover
The take-out
Cities need to take multiple actions to become liveable, sustainable cities of the future.
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