In an article published on Tuesday 25 July, the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) reported on the progress made at the Gabriela Mistral primary school in Solana de los Barros, Badajos (Spain), the showcase for the European ‘LIFE-myBUILDINGisGREEN’ project.
This programme, launched in September 2018 as part of the European Climate and Environmental Action Fund (LIFE), aims to strengthen the resilience of social buildings and education centres to global warming by using nature-based solutions (NbS).
As part of the pilot project, grasses, lichens, mosses and bushes were planted on the school’s roofs, façades and paved areas. Two years later, the plants had grown sufficiently to reduce the temperature in the classrooms by between 11% and 15%.
“This initiative has shown that it is possible to tackle climate change with sustainable solutions”, said the city’s mayor, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, in the CINEA press release.
‘LIFE-myBUILDINGisGREEN’ will come to an end on 31 December 2023. To share its initial results, a conference is being organised from 19 to 21 September with experts working on the use and promotion of NbS.
See the conference programme: https://aeur.eu/f/887 (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)