Soil and climate: Sponge city - dealing with too much or too little water

Online workshop, 28th April 2021, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Climate Alliance & Soil Alliance on the topic "Sponge City - Dealing with too much or too little water".

In cities, soils are becoming increasingly important for urban planning in regulating water levels. The "sponge city" has therefore become an important objective. Climate Alliance & Soil Alliance address this topic in this first joint workshop. 

 

DESCRIPTION

Already 20 years ago, at the international Climate Alliance Conference in Bozen, municipalities joined forces to establish their own network on soil: the European Soil Alliance.

Soil is an important store of carbon and the basis for the production of our food. It also plays an important role for the water balance. These functions are increasingly restricted by industrialised agriculture as well as the sealing of land through the expansion of settlement and traffic areas. Preserving the CO2 and water storage capacity of soils is thus also an increasingly important contribution to achieving an ambitious reduction in CO2 emissions. In cities, soils have an increasingly important role in urban planning in regulating water levels (flooding in winter and more extreme drought in summer).

The "sponge city" to regulate water extremes has become an important objective.

We would therefore like to highlight this topic as a focal point in this first joint workshop.

AGENDA

10:00 - 10:05 WELCOME
Rainer Handlfinger | Mayor of Obergrafendorf | Climate Alliance
Detlef Gerdts | Head of Department Environment and Climate Protection City of Osnabrück | Soil & Land Alliance

10:05 - 10:20 INTRODUCTION: SOIL AND CLIMATE PROTECTION
Thomas Brose | Climate Alliance and
Christian Steiner | Soil & Land Alliance

10:20 - 11:00 SPONGE CITY - DEALING WITH TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE WATER
Berthold Reloe | City of Münster | Schwammstadt Münster - approach and examples
Prof. Hubertus von Dressler | Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences | Green fingers for a climate-resilient city of Osnabrück - the importance of soils in regulating the water balance in a changing climate
Hendrik Janssen | Dr. Pecher AG | Multifunctional areas
Daniel Zimmermann | 3:0 Landscape architecture | The sponge city for street trees. The Austrian model using the example of a rural community 

11:00 - 11:45 DISCUSSION WITH THE PARTICIPANTS

11:45 - 12:00 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

Language: German

Register here.

Organised and moderated by Climate Alliance

 

Download invitation (pdf - German)

 

CONTACT

Thomas Brose
Climate Alliance
t.brose@klimabuendnis.org

Uta Mählmann
Soil & Land Alliance
Maehlmann@osnabrueck.de

 

THE CLIMATE ALLIANCE

For 30 years, Climate Alliance member municipalities have been working with their indigenous rainforest partners to protect the world's climate. With more than 1,800 members from 27 European countries, the Climate Alliance is the world's largest network of cities dedicated to climate protection and the only one that sets concrete goals: Each Climate Alliance municipality has committed to reduce its -greenhouse gas emissions by ten percent every five years. Since our lifestyle has a direct impact on particularly threatened peoples and places on this earth, Climate Alliance combines local action with global responsibility. klimabuendnis.org

SOIL ALLIANCE

The European Land and Soil Alliance (ELSA) unites cities, municipalities and counties as well as federal states, NGOs and other organisations from European countries. It is the largest European municipal network dedicated to soil protection.

The Soil & Land Alliance offers a platform for all actors interested in soil issues to discuss soil protection issues and to work on joint projects in partnership. ELSA sees itself as a network and lobbyist for soil protection. bodenbuendnis.org

FEDERAL ASSOCIATION

The Federal Soil Association is a non-profit association dealing with issues of soil science and soil protection. It is one of the environmental associations recognised by the federal government under the Environmental Appeals Act and offers a platform for the exchange of views for colleagues from the fields of soil protection, agriculture, landscaping, recultivation, soil estimation, standardisation and contaminated sites. On the following pages, we offer you a wealth of information on BVB and the topic of soil. .bvboden.de much or too little water