Definition

Making something more environmentally friendly. For example, planting trees in a city (urban greening), in education and schools, and in finance and the economy. Sometimes ‘greening’ refers specifically to increased vegetation.

Further reading
Urban greening can save species, cool warming cities, and make us happy - The Conversation (Alberro, 2019) [website]
Greening Education Partnership (GEP) [website]
Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence (Bowler et al., 2010) [journal article]
Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening (Piao et al., 2020) [journal article]
Related

greening education; greening initiatives; greening schools; green roofs; green schools; green skills; land restoration; reforestation; renaturalisation

See also
Co-benefits
Greenspaces
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