I Living Lab 22: Sus ...

Welcome to iLL 22!!!

Our main challenge is "Sustainable cities- How might we make cities healthier, considering biodiversity?" and the iLL name is 

State of Art

Cities are the engine of the global economy - contributing 80% of the world’s GDP – but their exponential growth in recent decades has come at the expense of nature. Urban areas are also responsible for over 75% of global carbon emissions, accelerating climate change which drives further nature loss.

Today, over half the world’s population lives in cities. This share is expected to rise to 68%, or nearly 7 billion people, by 2050,

As climate change accelerates, cities, and the people that live in them, are going to feel most of the consequences. Rising global average temperatures cause sea levels to soar, increases the number of extreme weather events and the spread of diseases, all with costly impacts on cities' basic services, infrastructure, housing, human livelihoods and health

Challenge

Cities can promote biodiversity. It's an investment that pays back. Biodiversity performs important services in cities, from CO2 absorption to control of floods and plagues. Man is not the owner of the web of life, it’s just one of its threads. In this ILL we can weave together a web that contributes to think about how to make green investments and support biodiversity in urban spaces.

Nature-based solutions offer a solution to improve health and Biodiversity!

Goal

Contribute to think about how can cities make green investments and support biodiversity improving quality of life and health in general

Come and join us to think about this!

Structure
a week meeting (Tuesday, 18h-20h CET) with EEs.
Some meetings will be together with iL10 team - double fun! - and we will have the some stakeholder.

Stakeholder