As climate-driven flooding and heat intensify, insurers are increasingly focused on prevention. This article explores how green roofs, living architecture, and nature-based solutions can reduce risk, improve urban resilience, and help maintain affordable insurance by lowering exposure and vulnerability across communities.

The European Union has recently adopted a legislative framework capable of driving the transformation of its cities through widespread green infrastructure adoption. The challenge now lies in providing the regulatory certainty needed to scale up nature-based solutions and investments.  

The European Water Resilience Strategy emphasizes sustainability but overlooks urban green infrastructure. Cities must be central to water resilience efforts through nature-based solutions like green roofs, permeable surfaces, and water-sensitive urban design.

The article discusses the European Union's focus on advancing urban green infrastructure during the 2024-2029 term. It highlights key policies, such as the European Water Resilience Strategy and European Climate Adaptation Plan, emphasizing the importance of nature-based solutions like green roofs for addressing urban water stress, climate resilience, and public health.

An overview of the severity of the international water crisis and efforts to address it in Europe through green infrastructure policies and regulations, including the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and the recent adoption of the Nature Restoration Law.

Explore urban agriculture's potential in European policy. Understand how to address food security, environmental challenges, emphasizing the need for innovation and sustainable urban development.

In 1993, Whangārei’s Mayor, Stan Semenoff, invited Hundertwasser to design an art centre, a project that finally came to life in 2022. Learn about this magnificent biodiverse and biophilic building and its living and edible afforested roof in Whangārei, New Zealand.

This article highlights 2023 policy and regulatory advancements on green infrastructure support within the European Union, and suggests a path forward for greening cities.  

The City Council of Shiraz secures green roof maintenance by requiring developers to set aside maintenance funds for five years and inspecting maintenance annually. 

This article explores the innovative use of soilless green roofs in urban development, focusing on Singapore's Bidadari Park Toilet Project by GWS Living Art. The GaiaMat™ system, incorporating soft weed vegetation, enhances biodiversity, reduces urban disturbances, and promotes sustainability in urban environments.

Learn more about the European Commissions’ new guidance document on climate-resilient building practices and the multiple roles of green roofs and walls.  

A decade ago, the City of Copenhagen began redesigning neighborhoods, transforming them into climate adaptation projects, using community lead, integrated stormwater management approaches to cool cities, reduce flooding and provide amenity spaces. Learn about the design and performance of one of the first climate adapted neighborhoods in Copenhagen.

The European Union’s draft Nature Restoration Law contains binding targets for the greening of the EU’s ecosystems and its cities for 2040 and 2050. Its very ambitious and progressive but it is facing an uphill battle to become law and upcoming elections are complicating matters. 

New developments in the European Parliament are supportive of green infrastructure and now must pass National government approval.

An overview by Scandanavian green roof leaders on the synergies between green roofs and solar photovoltaics and some of the key design considerations required.

A great review of multiple policy changes proposed recently by the World Green Infrastructure Network to the European Union (EU) to support the increased utilization of green infrastructure in the built environment throughout Europe.

This article provides an overview of various policy initiatives underway by the European Commission that may support greater green infrastructure investment, in response to severe climate change impacts experienced throughout Europe this summer.

The Polish Green Roof and Wall Industry is thriving under a series of new national and local funding programs and regulations.

This article provides an overview of events, professional training, new Green Roof Professionals, new members, and a Buyers Guide.

Dusty Gedge explains how new policies enacted in England promise to improve biodiversity by measuring the biodiversity related impacts of development and requiring a net gain in biodiversity – good news for green roofs.