Western Australia is one of the country’s most paved-over states, covered with more hard surfaces and less greenery than all the other states and territories but two, a new report has found.
The 202020 Vision, a national collaborative of public and private organisations working together to increase urban shade 20 per cent by 2020, has released Where Should All the Trees Go.
The maps also showed larger islands, dubbed “urban heat continents”, with the biggest around the northern suburbs.
“Largely uninterrupted and contiguous heat patches shown by this research, shows that large areas of metropolitan areas are covered by a single hotspot that is more akin to a heat continent,” the report said.
The report, which contains detailed information on methodology, can be found here.