NAIDER has presented to Alcoi City Council the monitoring system developed for Action C3 of the AlcoiBioUp! project. The system is designed to measure, in a structured way, the results of urban renaturalisation actions and to ensure its continuity as a municipal management tool.
During the session, we outlined the architecture of the indicator system established by Fundación Biodiversidad, structured around key dimensions such as intervention areas, urban biodiversity, ecological connectivity, climate resilience, environmental and social co-benefits, and a gender perspective. The system integrates official georeferenced sources, municipal inventories, remote sensing and surveys, providing a robust baseline and enabling the objective assessment of results over time.
The presentation highlighted that the project not only promotes physical renaturalisation interventions, but has also incorporated a data-based monitoring infrastructure designed to evolve into a permanent municipal monitoring platform. In this regard, the importance of maintaining measurements beyond the project’s completion was underlined, in order to consolidate renaturalisation as a structural public policy, improve planning and investment prioritisation, strengthen accountability and support local climate change adaptation.
The meeting was attended by Toni Francés Pérez, Mayor of Alcoi; Vanessa Moltó Moncho, Councillor for Finance and Urban Planning; Aroa Mira Rojano, Councillor for Inclusive Policies, Citizen Participation, Older People and Childhood and Adolescence; Raül Llopis i Palmer, Councillor for Climate Emergency, Public Safety, Emergencies and Civil Protection; Carles Samper Sánchez, Head of the Environment Department; and Maria Adam Cuixeres, AlcoiBioUp! project technician.
