Manchester City of Trees, the European Forest Institute (EFI), the European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) and the HORIZON 2020 CLEARING HOUSE project invited for a 3-day conference on ‘Urban Forestry for a resilient future‘ in May. The 2-hour webinars brought together practitioners, researchers, policymakers and people eager to learn about the manifold opportunities urban forestry provides to make urban areas more resilient. This event was organised as part of the European Forum on Urban Forestry Semester 2021, a decentralised networking programme running from March to May with many diverse events.

Theme 3: ‘Trees and urban design’ – How trees and GI are integral to the development of our towns and cities in creating places where people want to live, work and play and how forest products can help to reduce our carbon footprint.

Moderator: Alan Simson (Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Urban Forestry at Leeds Beckett University)

Green living rooms in the city: a poetic approach to the urban green. – Christian Dobrick, Senior Project Manager, West 8 Rotterdam Not ok with recordings

Northern Forest x Grow Back Greener – Reforesting the North, recovering from Covid 19 and levelling up the country – Steve Connor, Chief Executive Creative Concern

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