Cork City Council Tree Strategy

Hinterland Built-up areas

Figure 2.2 Hedgerows in Cork City (Source: National Landcover Map) 

[2.2] Comparison to Other EU Cities The most recent data from the European Environment Agency (2018) indicates that Cork City is on the lower end of tree canopy cover when compared to other EU Mission Cities 2 of a similar size.

European City

2018 Canopy Cover %

2023 Population

Tampere, Finland

60%

226,000

Ljubljana, Slovenia

50%

279,000

Košice, Slovakia

44%

239,000

Guimarães, Portugal

43%

163,000

Aachen, Germany

40%

250,000

Rzeszow, Poland

38%

184,000

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

29%

249,000

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

26%

308,000

Groningen, The Netherlands

17%

238,000

16%

224,000

Cork, Ireland 3

Padova, Italy

12%

209,000

Tree Canopy Cover in Medium-Sized EU Mission Cities, 2018 Source: European Environment Agency 

2 As noted in the introduction, Cork City is one of a hundred European ‘Mission Cities’ that are part of an EU initiative to become climate neutral by 2030. 3 The European Environment Agency figure for Cork City was based on the previous (pre-2019) Cork City boundary and varies slightly from other figures cited in this text.

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