News and events

SPARE news and events

Apr 23

Learn more about stormwater and space for resilience in the upcoming VAnnforsk webinar

The SPARE project will be represented at the VAnnforsk webinar about stormwater on Friday, April 26th, from 10 to 11 AM. Project manager...

Jan 19

Oslo adopted a new Stormwater Guidebook

In September 2023, Oslo adopted a new Stormwater Guidebook "Requirements and Guidance for Stormwater Management in the City of Oslo". The...

Feb 9, 2023

SPARE annual meeting

The annual meeting of SPARE took place over two days last week in NIVA's Oslo offices. The consortium gathered together to provide a...

Jan 27, 2023

Webinar: Nature-based solutions in a cold climate

How do nature-based solutions for stormwater work when it's cold? And are there other important things to think about when we work with...

Jan 6, 2023

Working With Nature-Based Solutions: Synthesis and mapping of status in the Nordics

NIVA recently published a new synthesis report and other resources from the S-ITUATION project, lead by NIVA and funded by the Nordic...

Dec 21, 2022

The Nature Agreement (COP15): Climate adaptation must not come at the expense of biodiversity

A new international nature agreement was adopted in Montreal at COP-15, the UN conference on biological diversity, in December 2022. The...

Dec 9, 2022

Webinar: Stormwater and blue-green infrastructure in Norwegian cities

How are the municipalities working with blue-green solutions? This was the topic in the webinar series "Naturbasert sone" in October (in...

Dec 8, 2022

Nettverk: Tverrfaglig forum for blågrønn infrastruktur

Vi er i gang med å etablere et nettverk for å dele blågrønne erfaringer og kunnskap – bli med! Meld din interesse her og vi vil gjerne ha...

Oct 31, 2022

Valuing nature is important to solve the nature crisis

One of our partners, the Norwegian institute for nature research (NINA) published a story map to introduce ten main messages from the...

Sep 30, 2022

SPARE at the IWA World Water Congress 2022

A group of people from the SPARE project attended the World Water Congress and Exhibition in Copenhagen, September 2022. This was an...

Jul 4, 2022

Green community preparedness

- SPARE a thought for Oslo’s green and blue spaces, and its trees in particular, says David Barton (NINA). They are key spaces and...

Jul 4, 2022

12 pieces of advice for success with blue-green infrastructures

One of our collaboration partners, Bent Christen Braskerud, from the City of Oslo, presented his and the Agency's experiences with...

External events

Seminars, conferences and webinars

Webinar, May 14, 2024

Strategies for heavy rainfall and stormwater management (in Norwegian)

The Norwegian Environment Agency invited the City of Stockholm to present how they are working systematically to prepare for heavy rainfall and stormwater, in the short and long term.

Time: May 14, 2024

Place: Microsoft Teams

More information and registration is here

Extenal events