BRERA

BRERA - Wellness, Restoration, Resilience and Adaptation is awareness, commitment and action against climate change. BRERA deploys in Soria the largest transformation carried out for the recovery and restoration of the different ecosystems that coexist in the urban environment.

BRERA is a joint initiative of the City Council of Soria, Castilla y León Natural Heritage Foundation and Cesefor and has the support of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) in the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.

Strategic Framework

BRERA corresponds to the Built Environment axis of the Soria 2030 Roadmap. It aims to transform the city by improving its livability, increasing biodiversity and its capacity to adapt to climate change. BRERA creates and restores more than 230,000 m2 of green spaces, involving more than 68,000 new tree and shrub plantings. This will increase the city's absorption capacity by 24.25 tCO2eq.

Partners

Socios

Why is it important?

BRERA will restore biodiversity, transforming degraded and disused spaces into breeding habitats for pollinators, amphibians, and will make an unprecedented commitment to nesting birds and bats, while managing an inventory to monitor their impact.
Increasing the network of urban green infrastructures improves air quality, reduces noise, mitigates extreme temperatures in summer and flood peaks during torrential rains. It also improves the general health of the population. Parks and green spaces encourage the community to enjoy them and engage in physical activity (walking, playing games, sports, bicycle rides, etc.) thus reducing the risk factors associated with sedentary lifestyles and exposure to polluting factors highly present in cities.

Objectives

Resilience

Increase urban resilience and reduce the city's vulnerability to extreme weather events.

Clean air

Improve air quality and strengthen the capacity of carbon sinks.

Knowledge transfer

Generate, test and transfer knowledge for the transition to a circular, self-sufficient and environmentally regenerative economy.

Population health

Build a livable, accessible and egalitarian city that improves the health and quality of life of its inhabitants.

Raise community awareness

Increase community awareness and public engagement by fostering the replicability and scalability of its actions.

Ecosystem wealth

To enhance the value of Soria's ecosystem wealth, restore natural habitats and promote their connectivity to increase the presence of biodiversity.

Fund

Financia