{"id":27782,"date":"2021-03-25T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spain.climate-kic.org\/?post_type=news&p=27782"},"modified":"2021-03-25T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:00:38","slug":"eit-climate-kic-and-partners-collaborate-with-laudes-foundation-to-advance-madrid-and-milan-sustainable-urban-approach-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/spain.climate-kic.org\/en\/news\/eit-climate-kic-and-partners-collaborate-with-laudes-foundation-to-advance-madrid-and-milan-sustainable-urban-approach-across-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate KIC and partners collaborate with Laudes Foundation to advance Madrid and Milan sustainable urban approach across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate KIC, with the support of Laudes Foundation,<\/a> announces an initiative to mobilise its community of experts to work with a broad coalition of city leaders, citizen groups and businesses to accelerate efforts to lower embodied carbon in new buildings in two of Europe\u2019s largest urban regeneration projects: Madrid Nuevo Norte<\/a> and Milan\u2019s L\u2019Innesto.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The two-year programme takes a transdisciplinary approach to collecting key learnings from the two urban development projects to scale positive action across other European capitals, with the objective of transforming sustainable building practices in urban planning and construction at the pace and scale required to achieve net-zero carbon goals.<\/p>\n

By commissioning large regeneration projects across Europe, city leaders are playing a key role in encouraging sustainable building practices, and indirectly shaping the market for net-zero carbon, circular and timber construction. This is a much-needed development, as in a \u2018business as usual\u2019 scenario, emissions from new buildings are expected to surpass 100 gigatons globally by 2060.<\/p>\n

Both Milan and Madrid are examples of cities with regenerative and inclusive built environment ambitions. L\u2019Innesto Milano will be Italy\u2019s first zero-carbon social housing development, including 21,000 m2 of affordable housing. About 1,500 km to the south-west, Madrid Nuevo Norte is currently the largest urban regeneration project in Europe, covering some 330 hectares of the Spanish capital, and brings to focus nature-based solutions and sustainable mobility.<\/p>\n

The programme launched on March 23, 2021 by Climate KIC and its partners, and supported by Laudes Foundation, aims to capitalise on this trend, as well as highlight best practice from Madrid Nuevo Norte and L\u2019Innesto initiatives to inspire further positive climate action in cities across Europe. By working with these leading urban regeneration projects, the initiative aims to influence mainstream sustainable building practices, moving from a purely technical approach, to a transdisciplinary and experimental one, integrating culture and aesthetics, material flows, regulatory innovation, citizen engagement, financial incentives and new technological solutions. This systemic approach aims to help cities reach levels of carbon neutrality that are simply not attainable with a focus solely on reducing carbon-intensive construction practices.<\/p>\n

To achieve carbon neutral construction in terms of embodied carbon, the process needs to be adapted, and a system created that incentivises stakeholders across the value chain to succeed. This can be done through focusing on:\u00a0<\/p>\n