INC
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GREEN-INC
GREEN-INC is the abbreviation of GRowing Effective & Equitable Nature-based Solutions through INClusive Climate Actions: a European research project with 6 universities and 5 partner cities.
We will research how Inclusive Climate Actions can lead to more effective and equitable Nature-based Solutions for both communities and ecosystems. GREEN-INC aims to help European cities to implement Inclusive Climate Actions that result in a more just delivery and design of Nature-based Solutions by incorporating fairness and distributing NbS impacts as equitably as possible.
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions bring natural features into cities and have become popular tools in European cities to address climate change impacts. Examples include green roofs, pocketparks and permeable paving. Despite the multiple benefits, concerns exist that Nature-based Solutions (NbS) reproduce existing urban inequalities and injustices. To illustrate, NbS benefits can be unevenly distributed among urban residents and neighbourhoods. Concerns have also been raised about fair planning processes and the stigmatisation of people and places, in the worst case leading to NbS acquiring an exclusionary character.
Inclusive Climate Actions
Inclusive Climate Actions are solutions addressing both climate change and urban inequalities. They address the concerns about Nature-based Solutions by considering the direct and indirect impacts of NbS, and the distribution of NbS impacts.
GREEN-INC will evaluate Inclusive Climate Actions in Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest, Turin and Skellefteå, and experiment with new Inclusive Climate Actions in five urban living labs.
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