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The December 2022 edition of the GrowGreen Newsletter is available here.

On the 8th and 9th of November, GrowGreen hosted its final event in Brest (France): “Cities of the future: nature-based solutions for resilience in the face of climate change”. The event was organised by IUCN and Brest Metropole, with the...

What did the GrowGreen cities achieved in these 5 years? Have a look! Brest Manchester Modena Wroclaw Zadar Valencia NBS local strategies by Tecnalia

The political representative of the GrowGreen cities were invited to participate in a visit to Turin, co-organised by the city of Turin and IUCN, to find out more about the city’s engagement with nature-based solutions, urban regeneration and sustainable innovations,...

The recent UNEP “State of Finance of Nature” Report showed that while nature-based solutions (NBS) hold the potential to address interlinked crises, the volume of finance flowing into nature remains limited. In order to meet global climate and biodiversity targets,...

GrowGreen is hosting its final event ” Cities of the future: nature-based solutions for resilience in the face of climate change”, on 8th and 9th November in Brest, France. (French provided below – Francais indiqué ci-dessous) Urban nature-based solutions (NBS)...

On 22nd February 2022, invited partners from the GrowGreen and IGNITION projects in Greater Manchester attended a webinar organised with the City of Wuhan. Experiences were explored around sponge city design, implementation, and monitoring, to further cooperation around Nature-Based Solutions...

GrowGreen partners Bipolaire published a catalogue of nature-based solutions for the city of Valencia. The “Catalogue of nature-based solutions” aims to provide an overview and inventory of the different pavements and drainage surfaces used in the GrowGreen pilot projects in...

As the latest climate report was released this week, the messaging couldn’t have been more dire. The report states that the world faces ‘multiple climate hazards over the next two decades, some of which will be irreversible’. The UN Secretary-General...

The work carried out by the GrowGreen cities under the project has generated extensive knowledge, best practices and lessons learnt on the implementation on nature-based solutions (NBS) in different urban contexts.  In order to strengthen learning and peer to peer...