URBREATH: addressing urban climate neutrality in European cities

The increase in extreme weather events, such as floods and heat waves, is due to climate change that makes cities increasingly vulnerable environments and accentuates social problems such as poverty and exclusion. The lack of quality NBS makes the situation worse, especially in those neglected urban areas where there is an urgent need for social and technological revitalization in order to improve the quality of life.

Up to now, the prevailing approach to green revitalization and planning is often reduced to cost/profit criteria that often do not give a return on investment, failing to attract funding, people and businesses to these areas. The conventional approach also tends to neglect the needs of local communities and thus often ends up imposing solutions that are not socially acceptable.

URBREATH proposes a more comprehensive, innovative and replicable paradigm shift at regional, national and cross-border levels.