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CO 2 Emission Compensation by Tree Species in Some Urban Green Areas

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  • Marco Fornaciari

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy)

  • Desirée Muscas

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy)

  • Federico Rossi

    (Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy)

  • Mirko Filipponi

    (School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy)

  • Beatrice Castellani

    (Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy)

  • Alessia Di Giuseppe

    (Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy)

  • Chiara Proietti

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy)

  • Luigia Ruga

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy)

  • Fabio Orlandi

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy)

Abstract

Mitigating the negative impacts of climate change in urban areas has recently become essential to improving citizens’ living conditions. Trees are one of the most effective ways to attenuate the Heat Island phenomenon in cities, and numerous projects have been carried out to calculate tree ecosystem services (ES) provisioning. Among these, the Clivut European project (LIFE 18 GIC/IT/001217) developed a web app to allow citizens and the public administration to quantify the ES provided by the most common tree species. The present study aims to consider a new model to calculate the tree evapotranspiration cooling effect in the urban environment in terms of CO 2 -compensated emissions. The model directly converts the surface temperature change produced by tree evapotranspiration into the corresponding CO 2 offset in four urban parks in two Italian cities (Bologna and Perugia). The considered parks stored 1100 t of CO 2 at the time of the study, while the CO 2 compensated is 860 t, showing the significance of this interpretation. As a result of the study, it can be concluded that the presented model will allow a better estimation of the potential trees’ climate change compensation and also add further functionality to the web app.

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  • Marco Fornaciari & Desirée Muscas & Federico Rossi & Mirko Filipponi & Beatrice Castellani & Alessia Di Giuseppe & Chiara Proietti & Luigia Ruga & Fabio Orlandi, 2024. "CO 2 Emission Compensation by Tree Species in Some Urban Green Areas," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(9), pages 1-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:16:y:2024:i:9:p:3515-:d:1380875
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