Nature-based Services Archives - Climate Innovation Window

Governance and social innovations

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Tiny Forest in Athens

Our Tiny Forest in Athens creates green space and engages the community in planting and citizen science. It mitigates heat stress and supports urban wildlife. With 600...

Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas

Education

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SingularRibbon

SingularRibbon adds nature to cities with a lightweight, hydroponic structure that is easy to install on facades or pillars. It supports remote plant growth control an...

Droughts Heatwaves

Ecosystem-based approaches Health Urban Areas

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches

Tested in ARSINOE

LeafSkin

Vertical gardens are nature-based solutions that provide many benefits in urban areas: increase biodiversity, reduce heat island effect, improve VOC capture, provide o...

Heatwaves

Disaster risk reduction Forestry

Active Eco-Wildfire Management System

The solution is a method for wildfire hazard analyses and forest fuel management planning. Forest fuels management implies a significant allocation of human and financ...

Wildfires

Disaster risk reduction Forestry

GREENFIX f³ Fire Free Fibres Blankets

Climate change has caused extreme weather events to be more frequent. In places like Albania, Southeast Europe, summer is often very dry and hot causing wildfires in m...

Wildfires

Drini Watershed Management in Albania

The innovation is an integrated approach of the natural resources management in order to mitigate effects of floods and other natural hazards (erosion, landslides, dro...

River floods

Flood planting at Erzeni river

This innovation aims to prevent flooding by planting techniques that are environmentally friendly. It focuses on two alternative solutions. 1) The installation of Coir...

River floods

Agriculture Ecosystem-based approaches

Water retention through restoration of the sponge function of drained soils

Urbanisation and agriculture in the Rhine basin have driven loss of water storage capacity in floodplains and marshes and soils of smaller valleys and have caused ecos...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Water from Heaven – Hemel(s)water

Water from Heaven contributes to local rain water storage and helps to overcome droughts.

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Halophyte Zeolite Wetlands (HZW)

Treatment and reuse of agro-industrial wastewaters for irrigation activities in drought prone regions

Droughts

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

The honey olive grove

A polyculture agrosystem for reducing drought risks, and preventing floods and soil erosion

Droughts

Ecosystem-based approaches

Alma raingarden

Increased rainfall and urban development increase the risk of flooding in many areas. More rainwater and stormwater has to be handled locally. Authorities and develope...

Heavy Precipitation

Seed blanket for Extensive Green Roofs

Green roofs provide many benefits, e.g. storm water runoff reduction; increase insulation properties; reduce heat island effect through evapotranspiration. Although mo...

Heavy Precipitation

Floating cities with positive impact

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Polderroof

Heavy rainfall events are occurring more frequent and are becoming more intense due to climate change. In dense city areas with a large share of hard surfaces (roads, ...

Buildings Water management

Paint your city green!

Mature trees will not only bring shadow but evaporation which will reduce temperature and improve comfort during summer. The successful settlement of fresh-planted tre...

Danube Living Labs Pilot application Potelu Living Lab Romania

While at the Danube basin scale strategies create a sustainable framework for action, acknowledging and managing water related risks at local level is generally a majo...