![]() ![]() It reads that all new and renovated flat roofs must be greened and also stipulates associated design guidelines. In 2002, an amendment to the City of Basel’s Building and Construction Law was passed. The programmes were funded from the Energy Saving Fund made up of 5% of all customers’ energy bills in the Basel canton. The City of Basel has promoted green roofs via investment in incentive programmes, which provided subsidies for green roof installation (1996-1997 up to 20 CHF per m 2, then 2005-2007 up to 30-40 CHF per m 2, in the latter case only for retrofitting existing buildings). Initiatives aiming to increase the provision of green roofs in Basel were initially driven by energy-saving programmes, and subsequently by biodiversity conservation. With 5.71 m 2/inhabitant in 2019, the city of Basel in Switzerland has the largest area of green roofs per capita in the world ( Living roofs and walls from policy to practice, 2019). ![]()
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