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Bengaluru’s Shrinking Green Cover Sparks Policy Scrutiny

By TNI Team December 4, 2025 ATREE report BBMP bengaluru Bengaluru climate action climate infrastructure climate planning climate resilience compensatory afforestation cooling energy demand CSTEP modelling DPR stage ecological assessments ecological crisis environmental justice Garden City governance gaps green cover loss heat hotspots heat inequality Hebbal High Court reprimand IISc study infrastructure planning Jayamahal Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act 1976 Koramangala KR Puram low-income wards Marathahalli outdoor workers permeable surfaces public notices root zone protection Socio-Economic Impact Steel Flyover project surface temperature rise sustainable planning transparent tree dashboard tree census tree felling urban design Urban development urban ecology unit Urban Heat Island effect ward-level planting

Bengaluru: Once known as India’s “Garden City,” Bengaluru is now confronting an ecological tipping point as decades of rapid, unplanned urbanisation have slashed its green…

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