Connecting Urban Nature to the Global Stage: Urban ReLeaf at IPBES

4min • March 2026

Last month Urban ReLeaf was represented in Manchester at the 12th plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-12), (pronounced “ip-bes”). IPBES gathered leading global experts on nature, government representatives,…

Citizen Science: Unlocking the Future of Urban Sustainability Monitoring

3min • January 2026

Cities around the world are expected to track sustainability progress, yet the data they rely on is often incomplete, outdated, or disconnected from everyday urban…

What if citizens had the power to redesign their cities?

4min • May 2025

As we move into the second year of citizen data gathering, we reflect on the inspiring achievements of our six cities: Cascais, Mannheim, Utrecht, Dundee,…

Urban ReLeaf a case study in a New European Bauhaus report

2min • October 2023

Urban ReLeaf is featured as a case study in European Committee of the Regions – New European Bauhaus (NEB) report ‘The New European Bauhaus at the local and regional…

The ‘Urban ReLeaf Data Ecosystem Map’ for pilot cities

3min • July 2023

The “Urban ReLeaf Data Ecosystem Map” deliverable offers a comprehensive overview of urban greening and relevant data ecosystems across our six pilot cities, Athens, Cascais,…

The Urban ReLeaf project kicks off in Laxenburg

2min • June 2023

In order to kick start this four-year Horizon Europe project, the Urban ReLeaf consortium met at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in…

Urban Releaf

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