Imagine wanting to build a giant sponge to stop city flooding, but the land you need belongs to a dozen different homeowners. Instead of buying the land, this project finds clever legal and financial deals to let nature do its work on private property. It's like a matchmaking service that connects landowners with the communities who benefit from a cooler, drier neighborhood.
Climate resilience projects often fail because they require vast amounts of land that is privately owned. Buying this land is too expensive, and current public-land-only strategies are insufficient to stop large-scale floods and heatwaves.
A set of validated business models and governance schemes, including land readjustment and strategic leases, and climate adaptation scenarios based on downscaled projection data.
If you are a land development firm dealing with strict climate adaptation mandates — this project developed innovative land policy strategies like land readjustment schemes that allow you to integrate nature-based solutions without purchasing all the land. This reduces upfront capital expenditure while increasing property resilience.
If you are an insurer dealing with rising payouts from floods and droughts — this project developed a way to validate nature-based solutions on private land across 6 frontrunner cases. This helps in reducing the systemic risk of extreme hydro-meteorological events for your policyholders.
If you are a farm operator dealing with soil degradation and water scarcity — this project developed business models such as strategic land leases and easements. These allow you to receive value for providing ecosystem services while improving the resilience of your own land.
Based on available project data, specific pricing is not provided; however, the project focuses on reducing costs by using land leases and easements instead of buying land.
Yes, the project is designed for upscaling through 6 frontrunner cases and 7 replication regions across Europe to ensure the models work in different continental areas.
Based on available project data, the project focuses on co-designing and validating governance schemes and business models, but specific licensing terms are not listed.
The project develops specific land policy strategies, including land readjustment schemes and easements, to legally navigate private land use for climate goals.
The project runs from 2023-09-01 to 2027-08-31, with deliverables focusing on the validation and replication of these models during this window.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward public and academic sectors, consisting of 19 partners including 6 universities and 13 other entities (local authorities, NGOs, and national parks). With only 1 SME and 0 industrial partners, the project is currently driven by governance and research rather than commercial product development, suggesting the primary output is policy and methodology rather than a commercial software or hardware tool.
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