The City of Barcelona is facing major challenges in the 21st century in terms of improving its population’s health and comfort. These require the development of a sustainable, equitable and inclusive city, with improvements to fundamental features like environmental quality, especially in relation to the pollution generated by fossil-fuel vehicles, the urban land balance and public services for all of the municipality’s neighbourhoods, decent housing, the fight against climate change and responding to migratory movements.
Trees are a vital part of an urban green infrastructure. They structure public areas and provide fundamental services for urban environmental quality and for people’s health and well-being. They form a network that interconnects all the city’s green areas and habitats, providing multiple social-environmental and economic functions and benefits, making them just as necessary as any other service.
