Shaping a Climate-Forward Mumbai

Mumbai Green Yodha

 

Plant With A Plan, Cool Your City Down!

The overall green cover in Mumbai city has reduced in last two decades by 40%. During same period, the temperature has increased in areas with fewer trees by up to 4 to 5°C, as compared to the surrounding neighborhoods. This also has health impacts on the citizens with increased heart related deaths, respiratory difficulties and heat strokes. 

About

Mumbai joined the Cities4Forest initiative and has signed the Call to Action for Forests and Climate, which intends to protect, conserve and manage its natural ecosystems.

Objective

The intention is to increase the city’s green cover with a scientific approach to identify native species, appropriate locations, planting methods and maintenance over time.

The increasing city’s green cover comes with several co-benefits like; it helps in providing shade and reduce heat stress, it creates better livable environment by increasing open spaces, it enhances local biodiversity and absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With a sensitive and thoughtful planting method along the water bodies and in flood prone areas, it can help reduce the flooding.

Principal

  • Plant with a plan – selection of native species, diverse range of plants, multi-layered planting to enhance biodiversity and value the context of location. 
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  • Land availability – Land being a challenge in dense city like Mumbai, dense plantation along with access for citizens is critical to increase per captia green space in city.
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  • Sense of ownership – Establishing a sense of ownership is critical while achieving the city targets of increasing green cover to ensure 100 percent survival rate and a sustainable planting strategy. For this reason, citizen involvement through adoption of plant, donation of sapling or even volunteering is important. 
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  • Science-backed approach – Establishing a scientific method of site selection, species selection, and further monitoring the tree survival rate and biodiversity enhancement is important to create awareness among the citizens and involve them actively in this process
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How You Can Help? 

OFFER LAND

OFFER LAND

Support us by offering an open tract of
land - a scarce resource in a dense city like Mumbai. These land parcels will help add a significant amount of vegetation cover.

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DONATE

DONATE

If you cannot participate by being on ground, you can support by donating a sapling.

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PLANT WITH A PLAN

PLANT WITH A PLAN

Plant responsibly by selecting native plants and ensuring a diversity of species under expert consultation.

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ADOPT A TREE

ADOPT A TREE

Encourage your friends and family to adopt trees to look after. By nourishing and caring for many such trees, we can ensure their sustained growth.

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VOLUNTEER TO PLANT

VOLUNTEER TO PLANT

Engage in the drive more actively by getting your hands dirty. Each tree planted and cared for matters!

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SPREAD THE MESSAGE

SPREAD THE MESSAGE

Raise awareness and share experiences among residents and explain the dire need for increasing green cover to combat rising temperatures in Mumbai.

 

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