GrowGreen has released a new compendium of nature-based and grey solutions to common challenges related to climate and water management in cities. According to a market analysis conducted as part of the GrowGreen project, significant barriers that prevent the wider deployment of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in European cities include the lack of familiarity with NBS...

As part of the GrowGreen project, Valencia’s city council has installed a vertical garden in one of the city’s public schools to improve temperature regulation and sound isolation. The initiative contributes to mitigating the “urban heat island effect”, which is a process in which temperatures in cities rise by about 2°C compared to surrounding areas....

The city of Zadar recently presented its Nature-Based Solutions Strategy and its Green Cadastre during a study tour in the city organised as part of the Covenant of Mayors Twinning Programme. The municipal team of the Croatian Covenant town, Zadar, welcomed their peers from the Italian town of Udine on 28th-29th November 2019. This Programme...