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  • News | 21 Nov 2025
New Handbook and Tool Recommender Support Europe’s Cities in Planning and Monitoring Urban Greening Strategies
Biodiversity

Europe’s cities now have a powerful new resource to accelerate the design, implementation, and monitoring of Urban Nature Plans and urban greening strategies. The newly published Handbook of Tools for Informing and Monitoring Urban Greening Strategies and Nature Plans - developed through the Science Service for Biodiversity, an initiative supported by BioAgora in collaboration with the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) - offers a practical overview of 59 digital tools that can help cities strengthen biodiversity and climate resilience.

Developed in response to a policy request, submitted through the KCBD ticketing system, from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), the handbook, its accompanying dataset, and an interactive online tool recommender map and assess a wide range of planning-support tools. These include simple dashboards, benchmarking frameworks, exploratory spatial tools, specialised modelling software, and comprehensive spatial decision-support systems. Together, these resources help local authorities meet the objectives of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR).

Find out more on the BioAgora website.