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From Seattle to Palm Beach, Florida, city leaders agree that urban areas need more trees to alleviate the effects of climate change. Leaders in many communities now consider trees to be critical infrastructure, providing shade, absorbing stormwater runoff, and filtering air pollution. The focus on urban forests has coincided with a growing recognition that low-income neighborhoods and communities of color often have far less tree cover-and suffer increased vulnerability to extreme heat as a result. When Congress included $1.5 billion for urban forestry in the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the investment came after intensive lobbying from a group of six cities, known collectively as the Vanguard Cities Initiative, whose leaders made the case to federal policy makers that tree canopy could help mitigate climate changes effects. Now those six cities- Albuquerque, New Mexico; Boulder, Colorado; Chicago; Cleveland; Philadelphia; and Portland, Oregon-have helped to launch a series of learning and information-sharing programs to bring dozens more communities into the fold to maximize the effectiveness of the soon-to-be-disbursed federal money.