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Lord Provost Frank Ross in making Edinburgh a “Million Tree City”
Frank Ross is City of Edinburgh Councillor since 2012, and he was Convener of the Economy Committee for more than three years before becoming Depute Leader of the Council. Frank Ross is now serving as the city’s 257th Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant since April 2017.
He was born in 1959 in London and moved to Glasgow at a young age before going to school in Edinburgh. Lord Provost Ross attended Leith Academy and George Watson’s College and has been calling Edinburgh home ever since.
The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Frank Ross, represents the Council on numerous bodies and organizations including Edinburgh International Festival Council, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and Dynamic Earth Charitable Trust.
His priority as a Lord Provost is to ensure that the city of Edinburgh remains a thriving and successful capital city. Frank Ross is also dedicated to making the city of Edinburgh greener.
Edinburgh is one of the UK’s greenest cities, with more trees than people, more green space, and more green flag parks than any other place in Scotland for people to enjoy. But Frank is ambitious to making the city even better by implementing many green projects.
Because of him, Edinburgh has an ambitious target to become a Million Tree City by 2030 as part of its commitment for net-zero emissions by the end of the decade.
The Edinburgh Million Tree Forum is made of representatives from council services, the Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust, the Woodland Trust, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Trees of Edinburgh, the Scottish Wildlife Trust, the Trust for Conservation Volunteers and the Edinburgh Living Landscape Initiative.
With this initiative, Edinburgh will have a large impact on climate change and it will help with the city’s cooling in heatwaves, surface water management for heavy rainfall as well as around carbon storage and a home for wildlife.
