From city to green, with this dashboard – Stadswerk Magazine

Local climate regulation, CO2 reduction or biodiversity using urban green space. Measuring and demonstrating ecosystem services makes it possible. Using real-time data, it is clear exactly what needs to be done in a neighbourhood, park or square. With a focus on the value of greenery. The local amount of soil moisture, particulate matter or temperature; everything is insightful in the GAES dashboard. An indispensable opportunity to make limited public spaces functional and circular.

Data as a tool for climate adaptation – Stadswerk Magazine

Using data to achieve climate adaptation goals. A baseline measurement using a Quickscan, followed by real-time and social data. It is the tool to improve ecosystem services at a specific location. Think local heat stress reduction or increasing social cohesion and biodiversity. A key to success, when it comes to local climate adaptation.

Green redevelopment as a weapon against heat stress and social problems – Tree Care

Green As A Service (GAES) deployed on two Hague squares
In the beautiful city behind the dunes, a growing number of residents of some neighbourhoods creep into a feeling of insecurity. In addition, the municipality of The Hague struggles with heat stress in summer and the disappearance of biodiversity. To tackle these problems, the municipality decided to enter into cooperation with GAES.

Research shows: urban trees can save lives – Tree Care

The heat island effect is a familiar phenomenon to many. A study published in The Lancet now suggests that planting more trees could have saved up to 2,500 European city dwellers from premature death.

A (Boundless) collaboration – Knowledge platform CROW

In The Hague, the number of residents of some neighbourhoods with a sense of insecurity grew. The Hague municipality is also struggling with heat stress in the summer months and, in addition, much biodiversity is disappearing. To address these problems, the municipality partnered with GAES to measure the performance of urban green space and translate it into optimisation and adaptations of outdoor spaces.

Steering the true value of greenery – Streetscape

There are currently considerable challenges in public spaces. Think of heat, drought, decline in biodiversity and social challenges. Until now, there has been very little green data based on actual measurements in public spaces in the urban environment. Knowing and measuring what is really going on? Or rather see which interventions in outdoor green space are working or not? The GAES methodology and the dashboards of Green as a Service offer insight into the true value of green.

Data-driven approach to problem neighbourhoods proves successful

GAES results: successes in liveability, biodiversity and heat stress reduction

GAES is a consultancy for greening and climate challenges, biodiversity objectives and social issues. Central to their data-driven concept is the role of ecosystem services (ESD). Ecosystem services include all the goods and services that ecosystems provide to society. How does this data-driven approach work, what are the results so far and what does the future of this systematics look like?

De Eijk Groep sails on SDG compass: ‘The way we do business now is no longer sustainable’

Many entrepreneurs in the green sector do shout that they are corporate social responsibility, but do not act on it in practice. This is the perception of Jaap Peelen, director at De Eijk Groep. Together with Karlijn Schaap, project manager Groen Als Een Service (GAES), he is implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within his organisation. They call on other companies to follow suit. ‘The way we are all doing business now is not sustainable.’