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The ambitions set out in this vision require new investments in green infrastructure.
The enormous growth and urban densification currently taking place cannot happen without strengthening the city's green infrastructure.
The creation, design, and management of green spaces is financed from different sources, including the general city budget,
land development tax, urban mobility fund, and various occasional funds. In order to align available resources and funding
systems with the ambitions and principles of this Green Infrastructure Vision, we need to:
1. Brainstorm. Create hypotheses.
2. Read scholarly articles, films, seminars....
3. Weed out ideas according to tested long term consequences. Examples: Seawalls do not work. Painting and blasting
asphalt to lighten color and "cool" streets and parking lots only transfers the heat by ricocheting to pedestrians and buildings.
4. Make a list of all vetted - plausible wants and needs for nature restoration:
5. Placed vetted ideas into Nature Restoration Categories. re-establishing ecosystem and native species (beaver...), combating
climate crisis, combating Urban Heat Island, and local creation of primary energies and reusable materials
6. Make sub-categories.
co-op primary hydrothermal energy company and plasma arc gasification plants.
Prioritize the list of necessary needs
• Calculate long-term funding necessary for planning, design, execution, asset management, maintenance, and costs that
private sectors must pay for protection.
• Indicate which projects and processes deserve to be prioritised for funding, and which projects can be financed later.
The implementation of the Green Infrastructure Vision will take place in phases and each phase will have its own budget.
• Set up a city-wide investment programme for the development and maintenance of green infrastructure. A first step
has been made with the Strategic Placement Plan for City-wide Green Infrastructure for green infrastructure with an importance
for multiple neighbourhoods.
• Find new structural funding for part of the overall goal, at least for maintenance and management, but also for the
development of new green space in the city.
Additionally, this funding needs to be able to grow in parallel with the growth of the city and its changing needs. If funding
remains the same, it is simply not possible to achieve all the goals set out in this vision.
• Explore possibilities for financing projects through European and national funds. The EU is planning to significantly
increase the amount of forest area in
Europe and to invest in more green space in European cities.
• Explore possibilities to let the private sector (or residents) financially contribute to the green infrastructure
of the city.
The ambitions set out in this vision require new investments in green infrastructure.
The enormous growth and urban densification currently taking place cannot happen without strengthening the city’s green
infrastructure. The creation, design, and management of green spaces is financed from different sources, including the general
city budget, land development tax, urban mobility fund, and various occasional funds. In order to align available resources
and funding systems with the ambitions and principles of this Green Infrastructure Vision, we need to:
• Calculate the long-term funding necessary for planning, design, execution, asset management, maintenance and incentives
for private actors.
• Indicate which projects and processes deserve to be prioritised for funding, and which projects can be financed later.
The implementation of the Green Infrastructure Vision will take place in phases and each phase will have its own budget.
• Set up a city-wide investment programme for the development and maintenance of green infrastructure. A first step
has been made with the Strategic Placement Plan for City-wide Green Infrastructure for green infrastructure with an importance
for multiple neighbourhoods.
• Find new structural funding for part of the overall goal, at least for maintenance and management, but also for the
development of new green space in the city.
Additionally, this funding needs to be able to grow in parallel with the growth of the city and its changing needs. If funding
remains the same, it is simply not possible to achieve all the goals set out in this vision.
• Explore possibilities for financing projects through European and national funds. The EU is planning to significantly
increase the amount of forest area in
Europe and to invest in more green space in European cities.
• Explore possibilities to let the private sector (or residents) financially contribute to the green infrastructure
of the city.
Notable examples to be looked into include:
• CO2 forest: an urban forest created with the contribution of companies or residents that want to compensate their
CO2 emissions by planting trees.
• Baby tree forest: an urban forest created with the contribution of parents that want to plant a tree for their child.
• Secure more financial expertise around nature-based solutions in order to find more funding opportunities.
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