Zukunftsgrün

Thinking biodiversity, climate change and climate adaption together

Field of action: Business and Biodiversity

Project goals: The aim of Zukunftsgrün is to jointly address climate change adaptation, climate protection and the protection of biodiversity and to demonstrate solutions for a sustainable design of urban areas.

Project area: Interreg Alpenrhein-Bodensee-Hochrhein

Duration: April 2023 – December 2026

Background

There is broad social consensus that the ongoing loss of biodiversity and climate change are among the most pressing problems. Biodiversity-friendly (green) space design can promote biodiversity and address the particular vulnerability of urban areas to the impacts of climate change. Nevertheless, they are often not implemented due to a lack of awareness and knowledge.

Zukunftsgrün creates training and educational opportunities, builds a transdisciplinary network with experts from planning and implementation of land use design, demonstrates the scalability of biodiversity-friendly climate-adapted land use design through an organisation with 200+ sites, and contributes to raising awareness among citizens, administration and business through intensive public relations work.

Implementation

In four closely interlinked work packages, cross-border solutions for sustainable urban design are being developed. These are:

– Building industry: Development of materials and decision-making aids for builders, LCA life cycle assessment data for green roofs for integration into baubook, training for planners and energy consultants

– Liebenau Foundation: Implementation of 6 biodiversity-friendly and climate change-adapted pilot sites, training for gardeners, social use of future greenery, integration of biodiversity and climate change adaptation into the Foundation’s environmental management system.

– Flowering Ambassadors: Training of private individuals/volunteers to become flowering ambassadors, train-the-trainer training for organisations that would like to offer flowering ambassador courses themselves, information and material provided.

– Municipalities network: workshops with excursions for municipalities, municipal competition: Spiel.Stadt.Grün, training packs with measures