In times of Corona, a funding program for municipal green is necessary. Joint position paper of BGL, bdla, BdB, ZVG and DNR.
For more than two months now, the Corona pandemic and the associated adversities have dominated all areas of social and economic life in Germany. After the necessary reaction to the health crisis, the focus is now on reactivating the German economy.
The upcoming political decisions must look beyond their economic implications to other central challenges of our time: Climate change, biodiversity, and the health of urban and rural populations.
The Lockdown has clearly shown that people need gardens, parks and green spaces to stay healthy. Economic stimulus packages must help local authorities with these services of general interest now.
Till Rehwaldt, bdla President
Against this background, the Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau BGL, the bdla, the Bund deutscher Baumschulen BdB, the Zentralverband Gartenbau ZVG and the Deutsche Naturschutzring DNR have published a joint position paper "Gesundheit stärken, Klimaanpassung gestalten, Mittelstand stützen: A funding program for municipal greenery".
In it, the five associations call on "the federal and state governments to establish a long-term funding program for green-blue infrastructure in urban and rural areas for the benefit of cities and municipalities, thereby supporting the goals of the White Paper on Urban Greening and the Federal Government's Urban Nature Master Plan."
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