Urban GreenUp scheme picks up golden award!

Liverpool’s award-winning URBAN GreenUP project has gone gold!

The EU-funded environmental programme which has received international acclaim for greening the city, has now been awarded a golden pineapple trophy for its Climate Resilience submission at the Festival of Place in London.

The Council’s project co-ordinator Juliet Staples, pictured with Cllr Dan Barrington, Cabinet member for Transport and Connectivity, collected the award for the project, which is also up for an AIPH World Green City Award in September.

The URBAN GreenUP project ran between 2017-2023 and designed, retrofitted and monitored over 40 nature-based solutions across the city to enhance biodiversity and improve air quality.

The project looked at how the city can use green (planted) and blue (water) spaces to reduce flooding, lower summer air temperatures, improve wellbeing, engage communities and promote economic regeneration to make the city more resilient to climate change impacts.

The range of schemes delivered include three different types of vertical green walls, pollinator roofs and trees providing sustainable urban drainage in the heart of the city all in a bid to create green corridors.

The £3.5m programme, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 initiative, has also involved floating ecosystem islands in the city centre docks system and a park lake, as well as a mobile ‘pop up’ forest and some innovative pollinator spaces and verges in the city.