Goals

UnSealingCities aims to help improve local planning policies and practices in Portugal by:

1. Drawing up recommendations (aimed at supporting Municipal Territorial Plans and strengthening the Legal Framework for Urbanisation and Building) to control soil sealing and increase the resilience of cities to climate change;

2. Inventorying:

   • Policy measures and interventions recognised as good practices in mitigating vulnerabilities arising from soil sealing in urban environments;

   • Data sources, indicators and methodologies for monitoring soil sealing in cities.

3. Co-creation of interventions to reverse soil sealing and/or implement nature-based solutions in intra-urban areas of three municipalities with high soil sealing levels.