Abstract
Urban greening is increasingly recognised as a key strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation, yet cities often lack coherent and practically applicable approaches for evaluating its impacts. This paper presents early insights from ClimaGen - Climate-resilient reGeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods,
striving towards net-zero (2025–2028), a Horizon Europe Innovation Action project, supporting nine European cities in planning, implementing, and assessing targeted urban greening measures.
ClimaGen aims to demonstrate a 25% increase in newly created or restored public green space and a 20% increase in citizen satisfaction related to greening interventions. To support these objectives, the project is developing a city-adaptive evaluation framework, the ClimaGen Impact Model, co-designed with partner cities to integrate local data priorities, interests, monitoring practices, and measured data within a shared structure.
The presentation outlines the rationale for a city-adaptive approach, describes the methodological foundations for the definition of baselines and selection of indicators , and discusses how existing frameworks and digital tools can be adapted to support implementation, evaluation, and communication of urban greening impacts.