Urban Biodiversity Targets Lay the Ground for Holistic Exploitation of Rooftops in European Cities
Macro of a honey bee (apis mellifera) on a mint (menta piperita) blossom. ID: 1574704057
In the Summer 2022 edition of Living Architecture Monitor (LAM), our managing director Luigi Petito reflects on how the the biodiversity strategy for 2030 – a comprehensive plan to protect nature, reverse the degradation of ecosystems and put Europe’s biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030. The strategy recognises that greening urban and peri-urban areas is a refuge for nature and provides a wide range of benefits for people.
With nearly half of the EU population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, greening cities an increase urban biodiversity is a must.
The full article is available here.
The LAM magazine is a quarterly publication first published in 1998. It features in-depth interviews with leaders in the green building movement, opinions, research, and green roof and wall project profiles. Living architecture is the integration of living, organic systems with non-living, inorganic systems in, on, or around buildings. Living architecture is an important step to reconcile people and nature in the modern built environment.
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