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A sun-dappled, tree-lined urban park walkway with vibrant flowerbeds, people strolling, and modern buildings with green roofs.

A sun-dappled, tree-lined urban park walkway with vibrant flowerbeds, people strolling, and modern buildings with green roofs.

Green Cities Urbanisation and climate change call for new solutions to maintain and improve the quality of life in our cities. Public green space has a positive effect on biodiversity, climate, wellness and air quality. This impact ensures that cities are becoming better places to live and work. Main Benefits: Climate Green trees and plants will prevent atmospheric damage, both on a global and on a local scale. Climate change will cause extreme heat and drought, alternated with excessive rainfall. This will make high demands on the urban environment. Trees and plants in a city can provide a cooling effect in case of a heat wave. In the case of extreme rainfall, a planted soil will have a better water storage capacity than asphalt and concrete. Citizens themselves also play a role in fighting climate problems with having an unpaved and green front- and back garden. People without a garden can also contribute to a green environment. They can opt for ‘green roofs’ or by having a ‘pavement garden patch’: you lift out some paving in front of their houses and replace these with plants. Biodiversity Biodiversity represents the degree of the variety of plants and animals. The various species on our earth keep nature balanced. Many different plants, trees and shrubs in the city will stimulate biodiversity. The more variation in vegetation, the more variation in the animal life it will attract. A wide range of pollinating insects and many different plants will be a food source for See more