City Actions
GrowGreen works with several cities across Europe to develop nature-based solutions demonstration projects, designed to tackle flood risk and/or heat stress while providing a suite of other benefits for urban residents. The demonstration projects are designed with local people and stakeholder organisations and their impacts on a range of issues are monitored.
The insights from the nature-based solutions demonstration projects feed into a process to create or update nature-based solutions strategies in each of the cities. The strategies aim to provide a city-wide approach to using nature to address the climate change challenges identified across the city. Again the strategies are designed with local stakeholders, ensuring that the outcomes are effective for meeting their needs now and in the future.
The cities involved in GrowGreen each bring different contexts and circumstances in which to test nature-based solutions. The collaborate and share experiences to learn from the different processes followed and identify solutions to common challenges.
For more information on the GrowGreen cities, please click here.
Work begins on the blue-green pedestrian corridor in Benicalap, Valencia
12.02.2021.
Green space with an innovative drainage pavement system that collects water will be built along a route of nearly 1000...
Read moreClimate Adaptation Summit demonstrates the significant potential of Nature-based Solutions for adaptation and resilience
05.02.2021.
The online international Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021 on 25 and 26 January, hosted by the Netherlands, convened global leaders and local stakeholders....
Read moreWuhan Sponge City Programme: achieving harmony among people, water and city
28.01.2021.
Download the summary and the full report produced by IUCN for GrowGreen on the Chinese Sponge Cities Programme. Wuhan, the...
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