Low cost actions to mobilize citizens in climate adaptation

The city must meet a number of climate objectives. Per inhabitant: 1m² to be desealed, plant 1 tree, provide 1m³ water infiltration and 0.5 m of hedge and/or facade garden. Provide 1 flower bed per 1000 inhabitants. To this end, the city is running various actions in which citizens/neighbourhoods can participate.

‘Behaag Roeselare’: joint purchase campaign to acquire planting material (a hedge or tree) at wholesale prices.

Love tree promotion: free trees/shrubs are distributed on Valentine's Day (in collaboration with the NGO Meer Bomen In Roeselare)

Facade gardens: If more than 8 people in a street opt for a facade garden, the city constructs them and pays for the plants. Citizens are also encouraged, independently of this joint project, to create a facade garden.

Neighbourhood challenges presented challenges to districts to achieve the above objectives
1. Organize workshops for/together with 20 people each on:
crafting a bee hotel and earwig pot, nest boxes and feeding boards
planting of flower bulbs in the neighbourhood
the climate garden at which the garden rangers can introduce themselves

2. Participate in the actions and report your numbers of bird or butterfly counting
10 gardens participate in don’t mow in May;

3. Motivate the entire district/neighbourhood/street to plant hollyhocks and sunflowers in the joint between the footpath and wall/front garden

Stakeholders:
the city complies with Flemish policy
the citizen lives in a more climate resilient city