Successful World Green Infrastructure Congress 27 - 29.06.2023 in Berlin Almost 1,100 participants from 41 countries at the World Green Infrastructure Congress 2023 After six years, the World Green Infrastructure Congress finally took place in Germany again and became the world's largest event on the subject of greening buildings to date! Almost 1,100 people from 41 countries had registered for ...

World Green Infrastructure Congress In 1 week the World Green Infrastructure Congress 2023 will start in Berlin and online! The congress will take place from 27 to 29 June 2023 in Berlin (and online): two days of congress plus one day of excursions (unfortunately already fully booked). Presentations will be in German or English, with simultaneous translation provided for all. ...

Open letter: Ambitious and enforceable urban greening targets for healthier cities The European Parliament and the Council of the EU are currently finalising their position on a crucial piece of legislation for biodiversity in Europe, the Nature Restoration Law. In particular, the legislation intends to set specific targets for restoring green spaces in urban areas, to ensure the return of biodiversity ...

The SoGreen Alliance, in which EFB is a partner, issues a press release about the EU Nature Restoration Law Press Release   Brussels, June 5th, 2023 SoGreen Alliance in a statement to EU Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans: Urban green professionals have a strong belief in the Nature Restoration Law In a statement to EU Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans the SoGreen ...

EFB webinar "Green Roofs for Biodiversity and Beyond: European Perspective" The European Federation of Green Roof and Living Walls Associations (EFB) represents the umbrella organisation for all Green Roof and Wall Associations in Europe.  Our goal is to spread awareness and available information about green roofs and walls. Therefore, we launched an online webinar series touching upon various topics related to green roofs and ...

The European Federation of Green Roof and Wall Associations took part at the GRÜNSTATTGRAU Network Partner Day 2023 Once a year GRÜNSTATTGRAU organises a Network Partner Day for all the Partners to exchange innovations and interesting facts about greening buildings. More than 100 network partners took part this year and discussed various exciting key topics together. The meeting and knowledge-rich ...

Celebration of the 3rd European Green Infrastructure Day on April 27, 2023 We are glad to report that on April 27, the EU Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) celebrated the 3rd European Green Infrastructure Day together with numerous EU policymakers, green roof industry leaders, experts and NGOs. According to the aim of exploring opportunities and strategies to …

Eurocities Environment Forum 2023  The urgency of a just transition to a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 has been repeatedly emphasized, given the current turbulent times we are facing. The climate and biodiversity crises, the pandemic, and the global energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine have all highlighted the pressing need to address climate change. To address these issues, ...

Cities workshop and board meetings to prepare the final phase of the international initiative “ProGIreg” in Piraeus From 29 to 31 March 2023, the last annual cities workshop and board meetings of the so-called “ProGIreg” project took place in the Municipal Theatre of the Greek port city of Piraeus. All project partners from municipalities, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and companies …

The Austrian Metabuilding Platform is released now! The innovation ecosystem of the EU-funded project METABUILDING was presented on the 30th of March 2023 at the BAUZ! Congress for sustainable building. the presentation there were the following: the Innovation LABs in Austria by Susanne Formanek from RENOWAVE and GRÜNSTATTGRAU the new Metabuilding innovation platform by Claudia Hunziker from NOBATEK/INEF4 success stories from Metabuilding network – ...