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02.11.2017.

Manchester Climathon winners address the city’s most pressing climate challenges with fresh ideas

Manchester Climathon winners address the city’s most pressing climate challenges with fresh ideas

Getting local people involved in designing and implementing Nature Based Solutions to improve their city’s resilience to climate challenges is a key part of GrowGreen. Manchester recently hosted its own Climathon, the world’s biggest climate change hackathon, to find Nature...


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26.09.2017.

Time for a Surge of City Greening?

Time for a Surge of City Greening?

When I go to a new city I try to get a run in, pretty much as soon as I’ve dropped my bags at the hotel. As well as helping to shake off that ‘urgh’ feeling from travelling it’s a...


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25.09.2017.

GrowGreen – helping cities increase resilience to climate change

GrowGreen – helping cities increase resilience to climate change

Cities across Europe are facing issues such as flooding, drought and heat stress that will become increasingly challenging with climate change. High quality green spaces and waterbodies are innovative solutions that enhance cities’ resilience to these challenges, and help biodiversity...


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30.07.2017.

GrowGreen kicks off!

GrowGreen kicks off!

Innovation will be the focus of GrowGreen, which aims to create green cities for climate and water resilience, sustainable economic growth, and healthy citizens and environments. This new five-year demonstration project is funded by Horizon 2020, the EU’s Framework Programme for...


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