Free live webinar | Green Infrastructure: The (Not So) Secret Ingredient to Deliver Cost Effective, Climate Resilient Places for People and Nature

Thurs 9th Nov 2023 14:00-15:00. WATCH ON-DEMAND.

SYNOPSIS | The need to deliver a robust practical response to the climate, biodiversity and public health crises has never been more pressing. Better placemaking can enable the built environment to support positive local responses to the climate, biodiversity and public health crises, creating places that are good for people and the natural world, fostering community wellbeing, encouraging active lifestyles and improving the environment. High-quality green infrastructure plays a critical role in placemaking, offering a nature-led design approach that delivers biodiversity gains, nature recovery and climate resilient development, whilst also delivering healthy, inclusive communities at a neighbourhood and landscape-scale, with practical and impactful nature-based solutions.

This webinar will demystify the functions and benefits of green infrastructure as a practical solution to deliver quality of life and environmental benefits. By looking at a series of case studies, and reflecting on standards to support the design and delivery of green infrastructure, this webinar will explore how the role of ‘green’ infrastructure – including, street trees, allotments, private gardens, green roofs and walls, sustainable drainage systems (suds) and soils – and ‘blue’ infrastructure – including rivers, streams, canals and other water bodies – offer practical, nature-based solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing cities and towns including extreme heat, flooding and drought, air pollution, water pollution, and unequal access to quality green spaces.

Host: Dr Gemma Jerome FLI, Director, Building with Nature.