Dundee City Council / DCC (Scotland) is aiming for Sustainable City (net-zero greenhouse gas emissions) status by 2045. DCC’s ethos is ‘supporting arts for life’ and ‘embracing community.’ Dundee is the UK’s first UNESCO Design City (2014) and it continues to support art+design-community led climate solutions.
In facilitating 'Trees for Life' DCC is co-developing a series of valuable tools and platforms to co-ordinate cultural partners and to establish beacons of public art intervention. To accomplish this DCC are supporting the following:
1) public engagement tools: physical and online
2) development of expertise, networks
3) providing venues and land access
4) proving resources and financial management services to enable the project to succeed
DDC, as an exemplar eco-art city, can effectively illustrate how arts-horticultural partnered initiatives can create smart growth and support the foundation of 'urban village' climate-resilient strategies, as well as highlighting how these initiatives are leading to action in reducing green house gases (GHG) and climate impacts. Expanded ecological corridors as learning-engagement sites are another outcome which the DCC is embracing. DCC is proud to work with all partners in order to showcase how a positive reduction in GHG emissions by cities and partners is possible by translating the outcomes of the 'Trees for Life' project and how these can inform civic policy and other future city plans.
In facilitating 'Trees for Life' DCC is co-developing a series of valuable tools and platforms to co-ordinate cultural partners and to establish beacons of public art intervention. To accomplish this DCC are supporting the following:
1) public engagement tools: physical and online
2) development of expertise, networks
3) providing venues and land access
4) proving resources and financial management services to enable the project to succeed
DDC, as an exemplar eco-art city, can effectively illustrate how arts-horticultural partnered initiatives can create smart growth and support the foundation of 'urban village' climate-resilient strategies, as well as highlighting how these initiatives are leading to action in reducing green house gases (GHG) and climate impacts. Expanded ecological corridors as learning-engagement sites are another outcome which the DCC is embracing. DCC is proud to work with all partners in order to showcase how a positive reduction in GHG emissions by cities and partners is possible by translating the outcomes of the 'Trees for Life' project and how these can inform civic policy and other future city plans.