New York's Central Park to become site for climate change research

2022-01-24T14:16:00-05:00

The Central Park Conservancy, the Yale School of the Environment, and the New York City-based Natural Areas Conservancy have teamed up to launch a new initiative and climate partnership to study the impacts of climate change on urban parks. Called the Central Park Climate Lab, the program’s mission is to work with cities across the United States to implement and advance urban park strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

“With about 55% of the world’s population now living in urban areas, urbanization plays an increasingly important role in how we manage and mitigate the impact of global climate change,” said Professor Karen Seto, professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment. “This collaboration aims to use mapping and other tools to develop urban interventions to protect their urban parkland and use them to mitigate and adapt to climate change.”

Currently, there’s no national standard for characterizing and mapping urban parkland...

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New York's Central Park to become site for climate change research