
Sustainability strategy
Operational initiatives
Nature Impact
A Strategy for Nature – Tønder Kommune
Client
Tønder Municipality
Services
Sustainable Growth & Commercial Impact
Project Description
Establishing a cross-departmental framework for nature planning, restoration, and municipal implementation
The Project
Tønder Municipality is home to some of Denmark's most ecologically significant landscapes, including the Wadden Sea and the Tønder Marshes, as well as ancient bogs, meadows, and forests. Despite strong political ambition for nature and biodiversity, the municipality had no single operational document translating its existing strategies into concrete goals and actions across departments. The task was to bring these ambitions together into a coherent set of objectives and initiatives that could guide municipal action.
Our Approach
Upstream Partners led the development of a coordinated framework for Tønder Municipality's existing nature and biodiversity work. The work included:
Screening existing strategic documents, including the Climate Action Plan, the Biodiversity Policy, and prior analyses from other consulting firms
Mapping potential local restoration initiatives and relevant stakeholders
Mapping potential local restoration initiatives and relevant stakeholders
Mapping existing nature-related ambitions across the municipality's planning framework and identifying where they reinforced each other
Mapping existing nature-related ambitions across the municipality's planning framework and identifying where they reinforced each other
Developing objectives across four categories: large natural areas, the open countryside, nature in urban areas, and nature communication
Developing objectives across four categories: large natural areas, the open countryside, nature in urban areas, and nature communication
Aligning the objectives with the municipality's landscape-scale connectivity initiative, linking its largest natural areas
Aligning the objectives with the municipality's landscape-scale connectivity initiative, linking its largest natural areas
Impact
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cross-departmental roadmap for the municipality's nature work
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objective categories defined: large natural areas, open countryside, urban nature, and nature communication
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project descriptions delivered for land conversion and restoration under Grøn Trepart
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workstreams covered: strategy screening, ambition mapping, objective-setting, and project development
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Copenhagen
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CVR: 45189961
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EIN: 99-5118639
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Copenhagen
(+45) 20 28 35 85
cph@upstream.partners
CVR: 45189961
New York
+1 (917) 450-5622
nyc@upstream.partners
EIN: 99-5118639
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