Ghent crowdfunding platform realising climate change adaptation through urban greening
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Introduction
Ghent aims at realizing more green areas in response to climate change and actively seeks citizen involvement to achieve this. Many of these small-scale projects however have difficulty developing into a successful project through the available financing mechanisms. Therefore, Ghent has developed a crowdfunding platform that allows citizens to propose and finance their ideas for the city.
Two projects addressing climate adaptation have been successfully realized with support of the crowdfunding.gent platform: one project encouraging urban farming and the other one realising edible streets. Although the crowdfunding platform gradually evolved over time towards mainly funding socio-cultural initiatives, it has the potential to be an excellent instrument to realise small projects of climate adaptation.
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