Strona BUE https://www.hamburg.de/gruendach/

Website managed by the City of Hamburg and devoted to its green roof strategy, which aims at covering with vegetation of at least 100 ha of roof surface within the city area. The city implements the strategy Since April 2014 and new green roofs are set up each year.

 

Strona 44 MPA http://44mpa.pl/

Website of the project initiated by the Ministry for Environment aiming at the development of local climate adaptation plans for 44 Polish cities over 100 000 inhabitants. The website contains not only information about the project and the plans, but also educational material on climate adaptation.

 

Strona ONG http://www.ogrodnadglowa.pl/

Website of the Garden over the head project, which aimed at promoting and transferring Swiss know-how on improving buildings’ energy efficiency by equipping them with green roofs and living walls. Since such solutions improve buildings’ thermal insulation, it is worth to include them in local climate & energy plans. Thanks to the study visit in Switzerland, a country of green roofs and walls, as well as thematic workshops, conferences, green roof days and consultations with Swiss and Poilish experts, participating cities got familiar with the achievements of Basel (where approx. 25% of roof surface is covered with plants) and Zurich (whose roof plantations of Orchids amaze not only the environmentalists). They also learned how to plan and implement similar investment on their territories. The website, available in Polish, contains many interesting publications and other useful material developer within the project.

 
 
 
 
 

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The GRAD project is financed from the European Climate Initiative (contrach number: 81232154) of the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The EUKI competition for project ideas is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It is the overarching goal of the EUKI to foster climate cooperation within the European Union (EU) in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.