After years of shrinking tree cover, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) adopted a goal earlier this month of maintaining a minimum canopy of at least 50% throughout the D.C ...

But the canopy cover is not equitably distributed; "areas with higher pollution burden and vulnerability have lower tree canopy cover and proportionally more low income and marginalized community ...

In Melbourne, 44% of buildings had views of three trees but only 3% had adequate canopy cover. Sydney had 84% of tree views but only 17% of buildings enjoyed shades from trees.

Neighborhoods with less than 20% tree canopy cover — defined as "the surface area of the land covered by the combined leaves, branches and trunks of all standing trees in a given area when ...

To achieve 1.5°C of cooling, they would need to increase tree canopy cover by 6.39%.

According to this rule of thumb, everyone should be able to see at least three trees from their home, have 30 percent tree canopy cover in their neighborhood and not live more than 300 meters away ...