NAIDER has submitted a proposal to Orkoien City Council (Navarre) to draft its Urban Green Infrastructure Plan. The Plan will help the town decide where to conserve, connect and renature its green spaces, how to carry out priority actions and how to maintain them over time. The proposal received the highest score in the evaluation of the bids.
Orkoien is one of the municipalities that the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition takes into account under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation: from now on it must not lose urban green space or tree cover, and from 2031 it will have to increase them. An initial reading based on open data (LiDAR, satellite imagery and the land registry) reveals two different realities: residential areas have 12.9% tree cover, while the industrial estate, which takes up more than half of the urban land, has 3.2%, with ground almost 2 °C hotter in summer.
The proposal combines a technical analysis of the town’s green spaces with public participation, so that the Plan becomes a useful tool shared by the whole community.
NAIDER brings its experience from the Bilbao Green Infrastructure Strategy, the renaturing monitoring system of the AlcoiBioUp! project and its support to Basque municipalities in complying with the Nature Restoration Regulation.
