Carbon-smart Urban Green Infrastructure as a Climate Solution

Cities play a key role in achieving Finland’s carbon neutrality goal. In addition to reducing emissions, it is also necessary to increase carbon sinks. This is enabled by urban green i.e., all the green spaces in cities ranging from forests and meadows tobuilt parks, street vegetation, and yards. Thus, it is important to better utilize the possibilities of urban green spaces as a potential carbon sink and as a cost-effective and multifunctional climate solution. CO-CARBON proposes carbon-smartness asa solution and suggests five ways to improve the carbon sequestration of green structures, to secure carbon sinks in urban planning, and to develop low-emission practices for landscape construction and management, while producing other vitalecosystem services at the same time