Resources
Nature-based Solutions Strategies in GrowGreen Cities and Fellow City Pilot Projects

The report on the Nature-based Solutions Strategies in GrowGreen Cities and Fellow City Pilot Projects is available here. This report is an overview of the nature based solutions (NbS), strategies and action plans delivered in the six GrowGreen cities: Manchester (UK),...
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GrowGreen Cities’ inverventions and dissemination of monitoring results

The report which details the dissemination plan for the monitoring results and project conclusions of the GrowGreen project, funded as part of the European Commission’s 2016 Smart Cities and Communities Call “Demonstrating Innovative Nature Based Solutions in Cities”, is available...
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GrowGreen: Learning from the Wuhan Sponge Cities Programme and EU-China collaborations

GrowGreen has produced two reports to outline the lessons learnt from the Wuhan Sponge Cities programme, and how EU-China collaboration can be continued beyond the Horizon 2020 programme. This report describes the impact of the ‘Sponge Cities’ projects in China,...
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GrowGreen Cities videos

As the evidence base on the role and benefits of NBS grows rapidly, these solutions are featuring with increasing prominence in global climate change policy, stressing the importance of their implementation in urban environments. GrowGreen has worked to create climate...
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NBS Co-Design Guide by Bipolaire

This guide is developed for practitioners responsible for the design and implementation of Naturebased Solutions (NbS) projects. It will provide a comprehensive guidance tool to develop climate adaptation projects based on NbS. The design and implementation of NbS is considered...
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GrowGreen Cities posters

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

The GrowGreen Partners made a collaborative effort for creating a list of factsheets, in order to summarise the results of the various projects. The factsheets are organised by thematic area, that are biodiversity, economic impacts, heat stress, social benefits, water...
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DELIVERING A GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY – Manchester: a real world example

The city of Manchester (UK) is one of the GrowGreen Cities, and it showcases several successful examples of NBS implementation. The Green Infrastructure Strategy of Manchester contains a summary of the main relevant points to consider when creating a Strategy...
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