Resources

Making school grounds greener can contribute to increasing climate resilience and improving health and education outcomes, especially for those most impacted by systems of inequity and environmental injustices. However, barriers to creating green school grounds at scale persist. How can...

The Fact Sheet: Grow Green – Guidance on resources and outcomes can be found here.

The active engagement of citizens is essential to successfully implement Nature-based Solutions (NBS). Developing co-design processes and including the greatest diversity of stakeholders will offer a solid foundation for lasting and shared improvements. Engaging citizens requires not only informing them...

Under the GrowGreen project, the city of Valencia has completed five nature-based solutions demonstration projects: a vertical ecosystem, a green roof, Benicalap Green Space, a sustainable forest, and a green-blue corridor. VERTICAL ECOSYSTEM In November 2019, the construction of the...

In June 2021, Valencia completed the last two nature-based solutions demonstration projects: a green-blue corridor and a sustainable forest. GREEN-BLUE CORRIDOR This green-blue corridor, located in Carrer del Foc and Plaça Regino Mas, will improve thermal comfort, water management and...

The fact sheet on ‘Stakeholder and citizen engagement processes within an NBS city strategy’ can be found here.

The June 2021 edition of the GrowGreen newsletter is now available here.

The fact sheet on ‘ Unpackaging Urban Heat Island: concepts, methods and practice examples to assess urban climate change and to enhance planning decisions and Nature-based solutions deployment’ can be found here.

The fact sheet on ‘Climate change, vulnerability and risk in urban areas’ can be found here.

The fact sheet on ‘The Adaptation Pathway Approach to increase urban resilience to climate change’ can be found here.