This report quantifies the positive impact that the Greenbelt's urban river valleys have on temperature.

High Level Findings:

• The Greenbelt's urban river valleys are cooler than surrounding urban landscapes and can provide some relief during extreme heat events
• Increasing tree canopy just moderately in suburban neighbourhoods in Peel showed cooling benefits. The daily average temperature was up to 1.3^oC cooler across the study neighbourhoods after increasing tree canopy by 50%
• Cooling benefits continue to grow when additional trees were added to the landscape, decreasing daily average temperatures by up to 2^oC by increasing tree canopy by 80%.
• The cooling benefits of reforestation were greater than that of individual trees, leading to perceived temperature decreases as great as an 11^oC
• Even individual modelled trees showed an impressive impact on perceived temperature. It could feel 3^oC cooler in the evening under the shade of a tree

The full report can be found here.