![]() ![]() ![]() 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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