Increasing the amount of urban vegetation is encouraged as an adaptation strategy to counter-measure climate change mainly due to (1) its potential to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and to (2) enhance evaporative cooling and positively influence the water cycle in cities.
In GREENVELOPES we will conduct in-depth observation and process-based modelling of building green envelopes to better understand their capacity to exchange carbon and water with the urban atmosphere.
Upscaling these exchange processes to the urban scale by the numerical modelling of two cities, i.e. Toulouse (France) and Berlin (Germany), will allow us to quantify and assess the impact of both types of green envelopes on carbon sequestration and evaporative cooling potential.
GREENVELOPES is a bilateral research project carried out by Cécile de Munck (National Centre for Meteorological Research - Meteo France) and Stephan Weber (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Geoecology). Project duration: 01/2023 – 12/2025
