VISUALISATION:
NATURE SMART CITIES ACROSS THE 2 SEAS
Baseline 0 May 2018:
Empirical Evidence 28 LAs interviewed on 15 GI valuaQon tools. • • •
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4 LAs had heard of a GI val. tool 1 LA had made use of a GI val. tool 7% of 42 case studies on Climate ADAPT are on GI with populaQon < 550,000 (target audience) SWOT Analysis LAs lack knowledge on climate risks and threats. Env. Agency (UK) LAs do not have economic skills to fund GI climate investments.
Nature Smart CiQes Project Work Packages:
WP 1: Business Model, step-‐by-‐step Methodology and approval process
Baseline 75 Feb. 2022:
WP 2: Nature Smart Capacity Building Programme for LAs.
WP 3: Green Infrastructure Climate Investment Pilots – 7 locaQons WP 4: Project Management
WP 5: CommunicaQon
75 LAs will be directly engaged in the project and build their capacity and skill sets to use city finance to fund GI climate investments in their towns and ciQes 2,025 decision-‐ makers and city influencers at LAs directly upskilled to jusQfy and approve GI climate investments as a result of the project.
Nature Smart CiQes 75 Local AuthoriQes and 2,025 individuals benefibng from the project.
City Partners
Observer Partners
Follower CiQes
7 City Partners:
11 Observer Partners, but include addiQonal LAs due to 2 County Councils (UK) and 1 Province (BE) involved.
26 Follower CiQes will be involved in the project (those that have not signed up to be Observer CiQes. • Will include 5 LAs from France and NL that have not yet been selected (10) • 10 municipaliQes for Zealand (c/o Kappelle) • 4 boroughs/districts in Cambridgeshire (c/o Cambridge City Council).
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Province of Antwerp Cambridge City Council City of Lille City of Bruges Kappelle The Hague Southend on Sea
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65 decision-‐makers and city influencers directly engaged in the project (WP1, WP2, WP3) at each city/town:
TOTAL 455 People
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Essex County Council + 12 districts/boroughs Kent County Council + 12 districts/boroughs West Flanders + 7 municipaliQes
Total = 42 LAs.
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25 decision-‐makers and city influencers directly engaged in the project (WP1, WP2) at each city/town:
TOTAL 1,050 People
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20 decision-‐makers and city influencers directly engaged in the project at each city/town: TOTAL 520 People
Nature Smart CiQes PotenQal Urban PopulaQon Outreach = 12.1 million (42% of the 2 Seas total populaQon).
UK:
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Essex 1.43 million approx. Kent 1.51 million approx. Cambridgeshire 639,800 approx.
Total 3.5 million people approx.
FR:
NL:
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Lille populaQon of 228,652 people. Engage Department of Nord as a Follower City – 2.6 million appox.(incl. Lille).
Total 2.6 million people approx.
BE:
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Metropolitan areas of The Hague and Rojerdam 2.7 million approx. Zealand 380,621 approx.
Total 3 million people approx.
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Province of West Flanders 1.2 million approx. Province of Antwerp 1.8 million approx.
Total 3 million people approx.
Understanding ExisQng Knowledge Base
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Academic Partners lead work to understand exisQng knowledge base on GI around market and non-‐market values of GI.
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Will undertake:
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Desk based review of exisQng case studies and academic research 50 structured interviews with GI exemplar projects
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Direct benefits Cash benefits Indirect benefits Non-‐cash benefits Understand the benefits available to LAs in terms of triple bojom line (economic, social, environmental values)
Business Model 7 GI Climate Investment Pilots
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Understand the market and non-‐market values to GI Climate investments for LAs via 7 real life examples
Each City Partner will deliver a GI climate investment Pilot in their local area, looking to collate data and informaQon around triple bojom line benefits to LAs. Provide Academic Partners with this informaQon so that they can integrate this in to the Business Model.
Data collected:
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Direct benefits Cash benefits Indirect benefits Non-‐cash benefits
CriQcal Review
Market Failures • • • • •
GI difficult to jusQfy economic terms Lack of sustained focus on climate adaptaQon Lack of senior management involvement in climate adaptaQon Lack of capacity/ understanding of risks Lack of policies and strategies on GI climate investments
[ValidaQon of the Business Model and associated outputs]
Academic Partners
Understand following benefits available to LAs:
Nature Smart CiQes Business Model
[Academics Build understanding of how LAs can deliver GI climate investments using their own city finance]
Review exisQng Knowledge base
SoluQon for 75 LAs In the 2 Seas
1. Advisory Board 2. Independent Auditors
50 Structured Interviews GI Academic Partners
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Direct benefits Cash benefits Indirect benefits Non-‐cash benefits
[Pilots help collect data, develop, test and validate the Business Model – demonstrate the cash flow analysis of each Pilot]
7 GI Pilots City Partners
Nature Smart Capacity Building – 75 LA’s
Collect Data for Business Mode – idenQfy the cash flow analysis for each Pilot.
Non-‐cash benefits
Cash benefits Direct to LA invesQng
Cost reduc#on Flood preven#on
Social value
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Health Mental health
Indirect
Tourism value
Reduced heat stress
An#-‐social behaviour Increased physical ac#vity
Each Pilot project would undertake a cash flow analysis review that IdenQfied the market and non-‐market values and assessed triple bojom line benefits for the LA who invested in the GI climate investment.