Organization: Green Infrastructure Foundation and Ontario Parks Association

Year of publication: 2017

Type of green infrastructure: all

Summary: Living green infrastructure like street trees, bioswales, green roofs, living walls, and rain gardens helps manage stormwater while providing a myriad of other benefits, including improved water quality, reduced stress on grey infrastructure, groundwater recharge, improved air quality, and greenhouse gas sequestration.

Municipal governments have identified a lack of capacity about how to envision, value, create policy for, and implement green infrastructure as the biggest obstacle to its widespread use.

The Green Infrastructure Engagement, Valuation, and Training Program, supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation aims to overcome these obstacles and build capacity in the municipal sector and beyond to use and realize the benefits of green infrastructure.

Green Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Matrix
The Green Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Matrix is a tool that allows for an aggregate-level economic analysis to be conducted. It includes two costs and ten benefits for fifteen different types of green infrastructure.

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