The IUCN evaluates that cities offer the potential to create the necessary ecological connectivity across fragmented landscapes, per capita to reduce ecological footprints and to promote air -conditioned ecosystems.
By Salam Rajesh
The analytical evaluation of the International Union for Nature Conservation and Natural Resources (IUCN) 'catalyzed the biological diversity on buildings (2025)' that the capacity of cities as landscapes to support biological diversity is assumed as one of the critical steps that are used for the disturbance of the Global biodiversity is required and the three -time planetary crisis – the global Warming, climate change and extreme weather events – and to tackle pollution.
The IUCN evaluates that cities offer the potential to create the necessary ecological connectivity across fragmented landscapes, per capita to reduce ecological footprints and to promote air -conditioned ecosystems.
It is important that cities create an opportunity to combine people and nature in modern times with the new goal, to support human health and well -being, the resistance of the community and social cohesion.
The integration of nature and biological diversity in buildings comprises the design of green roofs and walls as well as the inclusion of measures to protect wild animals, in particular birds, against the structure of dangers such as reflective surfaces and special resources such as nesting boxes and residual location for pollinators.
The focus on the building is intended to highlight measures, including living architecture (i.e. natural-looking green roofs and walls), the prioritization of indigenous species and wild-free building approaches in accordance with the IUCN rating.
The introduction of nature in cities offers people and biological diversity, IUCN stress, which confirm the thinking process that this can contribute to human health and well-being, resistance of the community and social cohesion. Urban nature can reduce the ecological footprints of the residents, help urban biodiversity and promote climate-resilant ecosystems, says IUCN.
This thinking process had developed from the concerns about the crises of climate change and the global loss of biological diversity, which required the creation of new resilient and biological landscapes. According to IUCN, the implementation of initiatives must highlight the biological diversity-friendly landscapes, large intact habitat nuclei and connectivity in the built environment.
As a rapidly increasing world population centers, cities offer the opportunity to combine people with nature as a aspect of everyday life-a connection that shows research in a new way of thinking.
The latest assessment of the IUCN is the analysis of the biodiversity regulations for biodiversity regulations, standards, incentives and metrics in the lens of eight European case studies.
According to the assessment, the key component of urban biodiversity support in this size is “living architecture”, a term that relates to naturally looking green roofs and facades. While the green level at the ground level such as parks and urban forests for the total diversity of the biological diversity is of essential importance, the report focuses on the greening of building, which can supplement hardness and contribute significantly to the urban biological diversity.
The report emphasizes that developers and municipal guidelines recognize the advantages of creating buildings of residential architecture as part of a larger urban ecological system, a diving boar and a connection to certain habitats to maximize the support of the support of biodiversity.
Since green and biodiversity are integrated into buildings, there is a need to minimize the risks and threats to the animal world on the building. This aspect deals with the protection of breeding birds and the growing concern of bird strokes caused by the dazzling view of glass buildings, and the other aspect is to reduce the adverse effects of light and noise pollution on the animal world.
While it was emphasized that the introduction of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in 2022 was a pioneering moment for a global engagement for the decline in biological diversity of biological diversity, emphasized the GBF a specific goal for urban areas In the form of von contains its implementable goal 12.
Target 12 was created to recognize the positive effects that nature in cities can afford for human health and well -being, and at the same time offer a critical habitat for the wildlife and ecological connectivity.
The goal includes a specific focus on biological diversity, in which inclusive landscapes were built in which the goal in maintaining mainstreaming of biological diversity and sustainable use within cities is located, whereby the introduction of guidelines and practices in a variety of Standards and from a series of stakeholders according to the stakeholders according to the scales. To the report.
Goal 12 of the GBF (improvement of environmentally friendly spaces and urban planning for human well -being and biodiversity) focuses specifically on the increase in the area and quality as well as on connectivity, access and the advantages of the green and blue spaces in the urban landscape.
The goal is to continue to guarantee the biodiversity-related urban planning, the improvement of native biodiversity, ecological connectivity and integrity, improve health and well-being of people and the connection to nature and positive contributions to integrative and sustainable urbanization and the provision attempted by ecosystem functions and services.
In his broad aspect, the redesign of cities examines to enable better living conditions that are interrupted by extreme weather events and other climate medical effects.
Here it can be remembered that the newly introduced law to restore Europe represents regional priority for the restoration of biodiverses and resistant nature. The law is reacted and implemented as expressly to the obligations of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Article 8 of the GBF, in which urban green areas, including the integration of urban green areas into buildings and infrastructure, as well as into the urban ecosystem areas .
Accordingly, the principle of net profit of biological diversity came into force on February 12 of last year in England, and this had inspired discourses and reviews worldwide to use its potential application as a biodiversity directive. The guidelines require that new developments are required to achieve at least 10 percent net profit in biological diversity.
The net profit of 10 percent takes into account the projected biodiversity value of the living space on site at this time when the development has been completed (ie the value of biodiversity after the development of the habitat on site).
Back in Manipur, urban planners must have conformity with this revolutionary thinking in urban green buildings as part of the Imphal Smart City concept in order to achieve several goals, including the local urban landscapes.
In addition, it can be reflected here that a good example of others is determined to follow and replicate the office campus of the Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change in Porompat in the Imphal East District in order to fit this new concept of green urban spaces and Green buildings to achieve green, clean and healthy environments.