On October 15 and 16, we were at Meet’Up GreenTech 2024, held at the Parc Floral de Vincennes. This is the annual gathering of innovators dedicated to ecological transition.
Our president, Catherine de Roincé, participated in a roundtable focused on urban biodiversity, centered on the question: "Can local innovations transform our cities into sustainable ecosystems?"
She first emphasized that, as with any other development project, it is essential to assess in advance the impact a "nature in the city" project can have on biodiversity and to identify scenarios that achieve the highest ecological gain.
This is especially relevant as strategies to strengthen biodiversity increasingly target city centers, not just outskirts. The challenge is to maximize the ecological potential of renaturation projects in particularly constrained spatial and temporal contexts.
To achieve this, Catherine highlighted two key points:
- the necessity of assessing impacts by considering large-scale ecological continuities, as a local project always integrates into broader ecological networks extending beyond the project itself;
- the need for reliable and standardized indicators to evaluate project effects and compare various scenarios.
If you follow us regularly, you know how we tackle these two challenges: by leveraging ecological modeling through SimOïko, our simulation software for species' life and movement, which helps anticipate how development projects might positively or negatively impact biodiversity.
Watch or rewatch the roundtable : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHXaI6i-1Po