Shade cover declined to 32%
An internal council review, obtained exclusively by the ABC, warned that shade cover had “declined from 35 per cent to 32 per cent” in the ten years to 2019.
The reduction torpedoed council’s ambitions set in 2017 for a “clean, green, sustainable” Brisbane with shade cover hitting 50 per cent in 2031.
“This is not currently expected to be achieved,” the review, finished in May last year, warned.
The council in 2017 had plugged the program as part of a goal to “value, nurture and protect” the city’s urban forest.
Read the full story here Brisbane’s shade cover falls short of targets ahead of 2032 Olympics – ABC News
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