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It'd probably depend on the park and how it's designed/managed, but I'd be shocked if monocultured lawns sequestered any carbon. I know in agriculture it's a huge problem that industrially-grown monocultures -- where they till the soil and crop-dust fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides and fungicides -- emit huge amounts of previously-sequestered soil carbon. A result is that doing the reverse -- i.e., growing food regeneratively in polycultures and without tillage and artificial fertilizers and without all the -icides -- is considered a good way to sequester carbon.
Considering we grow grass lawns similarly to how we grow corn monocultures, I'd bet grass lawns are similarly awful for the soil and thus the climate as well.
I'm obviously biased by the parks I live near and see/use every day, but when I think of a park, I think of tree'd sitting areas, tree'd play areas, tree'd walking paths, and some monoculture sports fields, with trees for the stands.
There are lost of community gardens around, but as a black thumb I don't use them and bias them out.
Basically my city has a hard on for trees in parks, and I'm all for it. I also think I've developed a bias that roads have no trees, and streets have trees.