Stratégies de financement et de soutien aux forêts urbaines

Urban forests are increasingly recognized as essential urban infrastructure, yet funding for their planning, implementation, and long‑term maintenance remains fragmented across stakeholders, budgets, land ownership regimes, and time horizons. Benefits accrue to multiple sectors – health, climate adaptation, biodiversity, water management, mobility – while costs are typically borne by a limited set of municipal budgets, creating persistent funding gaps and coordination challenges.

This Quick Guide on Urban Forest Funding and Finance Strategies examines how cities can mobilize, combine and optimize diverse funding and financing sources to address these gaps. It maps public, not‑for‑profit, and for‑profit approaches alongside the municipal capabilities required to access and manage them, including strategic planning, governance, monitoring, and citizen engagement. Drawing on case studies, the guide illustrates how regulatory tools, public expenditure, philanthropy, community participation, private finance, and blended models can be aligned to support urban forests over their full life cycle.

The guide provides a practical framework to support policymakers and practitioners in developing coherent, equitable, and durable funding strategies for urban forests within broader urban development and climate objectives, while strengthening the institutional capabilities needed to implement them successfully.

Mots clés : foncier, financier, forêt urbaine, planification, ville, gouvernance