Asset Management for Green Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure assets include street trees, gardens, parks, nature reserves, green walls and roofs, rivers, streams, water sensitive urban design components, mangroves, living shorelines, hybrid reefs and other nature based assets.

Together the benefits and enhanced services that Green Infrastructure assets can provide are extensive. Globally, the value of ecosystem services from Green Infrastructure has been estimated to provide benefits of US $125-140 trillion per year - more than 1.5 times the size of global GDP (Nature4Climate, 2023).

Benefits and services include:

• stormwater reduction and treatment;
• air and water quality improvement;
• mitigation of urban heat island effects;
• reduction of energy consumption in buildings;
• the storing of carbon;
• protection of wildlife habitat;
• enhanced tourism and recreational opportunities;
• improvement in human health and well-being;
• and much more.