Green and blue Infrastructure: A Policy Brief from the Policy Learning Platform for a greener Europe

The following pages provide an overview of EU initiatives to inspire local and regional authorities and showcase policy recommendations, practical solutions and blue green infrastructure examples in various forms and scales.These include blue green infrastructure guidance for municipalities, urban greening on private sites, green infrastructure to enhance bee populations, interesting policy measures and action plans, water retention system, renaturalisation of a river delta, floodable parks and rain gardens. A number of good practices from the Interreg Europe projects NBS4LOCAL, NACAO, GIFT and JUSTGREEN are featured, with a high degree of replicability in other municipal contexts.

NBS4LOCAL Project