About the Program
The City of New Orleans was awarded $7,755,093 from the Climate Pollution Reduction Program from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to plant trees in underserved areas from 2025 to 2027. The Department of Parks and Parkways will plant 5,000 trees in parks and neutral grounds and community planting partners will plant 2,500 trees in roadway rights-of-way in neighborhoods with less than 10% canopy coverage.
New Orleans faces a range of environmental challenges, including increasingly severe hurricanes and rainfall events, soil subsidence, coastal erosion, drought, and extreme heat. Some areas of the city are considered “heat islands” due to a lack of green space and can be nearly nine degrees hotter than other areas. These neighborhoods are often less affluent and historically home to people of color. With this funding, the City of New Orleans and community partners will plant and maintain trees in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods across the city. These plantings will help meet the goals of the Climate Action Plan of 40,000 new trees planted by 2030.
The 2,500 trees planted by community planting partners will be funded by the Department of Parks and Parkways Tree Planting Grant, managed by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Click here for more information or to apply.
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Click Here for a map of Federally Funded Tree Planting Program locations by Council District.
Click Here for more information on the Climate Pollution Reduction Program