The Informal Network of Experts on Sustainable Urban Forestry (INESUF) provides a forum for knowledge exchange, capacity-building and peer-to-peer learning to advance sustainable urban and peri-urban forestry.
Cities and experts report that a lack of urban forestry benchmarks makes it difficult to set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely) targets during urban forestry planning and to assess whether plans are realistic, ambitious and well-targeted. Benchmarking of sustainable urban and peri-urban forestry among peer cities was proposed as an area for collaboration during the Second Meeting of the INESUF on 8 December, 2021. Access to consistent, comparable data could support effective planning, monitoring and comparison among peers. An INESUF Benchmarking Collaboration was launched as a result.
The discussions of the First Meeting of the Benchmarking Collaboration focused on the following issues:
- What challenges do you face in benchmarking (e.g. data, indicators, comparability, relevance)?
- What ideas do you have for collaborating on benchmarking with other members of Informal Network to address these challenges?
The meeting was held via Microsoft Teams.
Read about the Second Meeting of the Benchmarking Collaboration (05 October 2022).