Line of action:

Urban environments

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Soria (Castilla y León)

Execution date:

2022

Duration:

01/09/2022-23/12/2025

On November 11, 2021, the city of Soria made official its
commitment to be a carbon-neutral city by 2030 and presented its Soria 2030 Roadmap made and signed by more than 29 organizations of society, where the levers to unlock the transformation and achieve this goal are identified and detailed.

BRERA is the materialization of Tractor Action 1: Improving resilience and increasing carbon sinks” and their respective lines of action and objectives. Therefore, BRERA has been conceived for and with citizens and presents a holistic development that recovers, restores, connects and expands the green areas, biodiversity and ecosystem wealth of the city, considering them as valuable assets of sustainability of the territory and as fundamental elements to face climate challenges.

BRERA was born from a collaborative work of the community and presents a governance scheme that guarantees its involvement throughout the life of the project, committing itself to its care, maintenance and replication.

The Brera project, conceived for and with citizens, presents a holistic development that recovers, restores, connects and expands the green areas, biodiversity and ecosystem wealth of the city, considering them as valuable assets for the sustainability of the territory and as fundamental elements to face climate challenges
.

It includes 21 interventions to renaturalise the city through the creation and restoration of green and blue spaces and presents an active and participatory governance system.

BRERA will increase green areas, guaranteeing their accessibility and distribution. BRERA creates 171,587 m2 of new green areas and restores 66,095.25 m2 This means 68,271 new green infrastructure units, 7,593 trees, 42,288 shrubs and shrubs and 18,390 reforestation units, which will imply an increase in their absorption capacity of 24.25 tCO2eq. BRERA will also restore biodiversity, transforming degraded and disused spaces into habitats for the breeding of pollinators, amphibians, will make an unprecedented commitment to the nesting of birds and bats, while managing an inventory to monitor their impact. BRERA is awareness, commitment and action against climate change, deploying in Soria the greatest transformation carried out for the recovery and restoration of the different ecosystems that coexist in the urban environment.