Green Infrastructures for disaster risk reduction protection: evidence, policy instruments and marketability – GREEN

GREEN aims at improving existing and developing new assessment tools and services that are able to capture the multiple benefits of nature-based solutions; design and test business and policy models fostering innovative Green Infrastructure (GI) projects and services; and elaborate instruments for upscaling and monitoring the performance of Gl strategies.

The specific objectives of the GREEN innovation action are to:

1. Collect, critically review, and enhance the evidence that enables a sound and thorough assessment and monitoring of the functions and worthwhileness of green infrastructure-based solutions and ecosystem services for protecting economic, social and environmental assets and infrastructures in a representative number of regional, national and supranational case/pilot studies;

2. Review the established and develop new business and policy strategies that foster realization of green infrastructure-based solutions; and to identify the regulatory ‘enablers’ and novel financial schemes that foster greater efficient deployment of Gl-solutions;

3. Build a greater awareness about, and boost support for the practical application of green infrastructure-based solutions through ample engagement of stakeholders and businesses in designing innovative strategies, projects and services; and through systematic and tailormade consultations and dissemination activities;

4. Develop criteria and instruments for mapping the potential of a large scale deployment of green infrastructures throughout Europe, and by doing so promote their uptake; and to demonstrate the value and feasibility of green infrastructures-based solutions for the scope of regional, national and supranational DRR/CCA planning and nature conservation;

5. Foster market replication of the demonstration pilots through developing training, guidance documents and capacity building; making available large scale mapping outputs and well-documented generated datasets; and fostering business oriented knowledge products and services.

6. Develop methodologies able to extrapolate and/or up-scale the empirical evidence supporting the value of Gl-based solution to regional and Pan-European level using also novel earth observation based services.

7. Provide guidance on and demonstration of the possibilities for large scale deployment of

Gl supported by structural and investment funds.