IB-Green

Industrial and business parks – climate resilient and fit for future

IB-Green aims to reduce heat stress in existing industrial and business parks by developing green and blue infrastructure.

Making existing industrial and business parks more climate resilient will reduce heat stress and improve air quality in urban areas, leading to healthier living and working conditions and therefore reducing negative climate effects for enterprises and on city level. 11 project partners from 6 NWE countries representing local authorities, business parks operators and managers, networks, sector organisations and science institutions in the field of climate adaptation are joining forces to work on this challenge. Special focus lies on older industrial and business parks from the last century which are becoming less attractive. Here, the need for change is high but complex.

Within the framework of IB-Green, concrete adaptation measures are being implemented to tackle three strategic focal points:

Increase green-blue infrastructure in public spaces of industrial and business parks while developing better public-private collaboration;
Trigger private business owners to implement climate adaptation measures;
Activate local authorities to implement more green-blue infrastructure in their industrial and business parks.

Action plans for public authorities will help them embedding green-blue infrastructure in existing industrial and business parks. Moreover, showcases and best-practice will be at hand for business park operators and enterprises. Training courses will be offered for all stakeholders.

Project information

IB-Green

Climate Alliance is coordinating the IB-Green project and is working with ten project partners: Green Energy Park (BE), City of Singen (Hohentwiel) (DE), Wissenschaftsladen Bonn (DE), Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie (DE), Lille European Metropolis (FR), Sandyford Business District, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (IE), City of Arnhem (NL), Municipality of Leeuwarden (NL) and Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning (LU).

Project funding period: March 2023 – February 2027

Funded by: Interreg North West Europe programme, the total budget is €8,900,000 of which €5,400,000 are ERDF funds

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Have questions about IB-Green? Get in touch!

Hélène Rizzotti

T. +49 69 717 139 -20
E. h.rizzotti@climatealliance.org