Greening London: Boosting Urban Biodiversity
The London Centre, 3 Aldermanbury, London, EC2V 7HH
About this Event
Nurturing urban biodiversity provides a wide range of important benefits to the health of city inhabitants from protecting natural ecosystems to improving the wellbeing and social cohesion of human residents. Greening in our cities can even assist with essential services like water drainage and reducing the urban heat island effect which can result in decreased costs on energy, property maintenance and healthcare.
The UK is actively taking measures to encourage increased urban biodiversity. Last year, the pioneering Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements were introduced which made it mandatory for all major developments in the UK to increase measurable biodiversity value by 10% on their sites. In London, striking the balance of increasing urban green space while densifying is key to green growth with a goal to make more than half of London’s area covered by green space by 2050.
In this Evening Talk, our speakers will discuss how architects and developers are increasing urban biodiversity in London to achieve a greener city.
NLA
NLA is London's built environment community, a cross-sector membership organisation for everyone committed to shaping a better city.
Our 30,000+ members work across all aspects of city governance, planning, design, development, and management, spanning public and private sectors.
Guided by the New London Agenda – our best practice framework for city-making – we come together year-round to develop new collective solutions for London: forming new ideas and partnerships, enhancing lifelong skills, and empowering a more diverse workforce. Our work has global relevance and is shared with cities worldwide.
Our home – The London Centre – is a public meeting space that houses our London-wide scale models and public galleries. Together with our extensive events programmes, annual Festival, and communications channels, we engage hundreds of thousands of people annually in the future of our city, from school children and community groups to political leaders and international investors.
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