Hello fellow researchers and innovators

At the moment I am working for a small / medium Norwegian municipality. There we want to develop a method, which enables us to make climate positive decisions when planning, building and maintaining urban public spaces w/ and w/o greenery.

This municipality is suffering rural migration, which means, the economics isn't the best. So we need to find / work out our own solutions instead of buying.

In addition to that, most of the software and calculators I have come across are developed for "buildings", hard materials for housing constructions, but in urban public places w/ greenery vegetation can account for CO2-sinks.

I feel the benefits of plants are far too often forgotten.

Do any of you have possible "links" to interesting webpages, or perhaps and even better, do any of you have an Excel-sheet which one could use to calculate this?

You know, perhaps someone has already done this job and worked out how to give factors and benefits and measurements into a calculation matrix, which then could work out a weighing up of a variety of design-elements...?

Your name would of course be mentioned and the research / product would be given your credits / copyright...

Cheers,

Berit