EFF-C-006 : Combating soil sealing and heat islands
Effinature criterion · theme: Living soils
The Effinature criterion “Combating soil sealing and heat islands” (EFF-C-006) belongs to the Living soils theme and applies to the EVO reference framework(s). It maps to 54 international provision(s), including strong matches with ESRS E4 (SBM-3), CSRD (ESRS-E4-5), GRI 101 (101-6).
International correspondences (54)
| Framework | Provision | Relation | Confidence | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESRS E4 | SBM-3 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | Combating soil sealing documents the material sealing impact. |
| CSRD | ESRS-E4-5 | Close match | High | The indicator for combating soil sealing measures a major pressure factor (artificialisation) expected by E4-5. |
| GRI 101 | 101-6 | Close match | High | Combating soil sealing addresses the 'land-use change' driver, the main direct driver of 101-6. |
| TNFD | C1.1 | Close match | Medium | Combating soil sealing, open ground and set-aside areas/EBS reflect land-use change and conserved/restored areas. |
| SBTN | S1a-R5 | Broad match | Medium | Effinature covers, at project level, several of the SBTN pressure categories (land use/sealing, water use, soil and water pollution, land use), but not the full screening exercise of the eight pressures or the marine/GHG realms. |
| Taxonomie UE | 7.1-SC-c | Close match | High | The CBS/CBSh, the definition of open ground and combating sealing minimise land take and maximise vegetated/permeable areas. |
| Taxonomie UE | DNSH-ADAPT | Narrow match | Medium | Combating heat islands through building greening and controlled sealing constitutes an adaptation response, without a formalised climate-risk analysis. |
| SFDR | PAI-T2-LANDDEG | Related match | Indicative (55%) | The combating of soil sealing corresponds directly to the soil-sealing item of the opt-in soil-degradation indicator. |
| CDP | 10.3 (Bio) | Close match | Medium | Combating soil sealing reflects the impact and its reduction on the state of soils/ecosystems. |
| GBF | Target 1 | Narrow match | Medium | These requirements impose planning of land use, ecological continuities and areas reserved for biodiversity at the project/district scale, an operational translation of the biodiversity-friendly spatial planning targeted by the goal. |
| GBF | Target 8 | Narrow match | Medium | Building greening, de-sealing against heat islands and stormwater management constitute nature-based solutions strengthening the site's climate resilience. |
| GBF | Target 12 | Close match | High | The core of the Effinature standard (creating green spaces (plant heritage, CBS, open ground, building greening) and blue spaces (stormwater), ecological continuities and user well-being/connection to nature in the built environment) corresponds directly to the increase in area, quality and connectivity of urban green and blue spaces targeted by the goal. |
| NRL | Art. 8 | Close match | High | Open ground, combating soil sealing and heat islands, land use and open-ground reservoirs for street-alignment trees ensure the maintenance and development of urban green-space surfaces and tree cover. |
| SNB 2030 | SNB-M01 | Close match | High | The combating of soil sealing is the operational expression of the combating of artificialisation. |
| SNB 2030 | SNB-M02 | Exact match | High | The combating of sealing and heat islands corresponds exactly to the de-sealing and cool islands of the nature-in-the-city plan. |
| Loi biodiv 2016 | BIO-12 | Close match | High | The legal combating of artificialisation/sealing overlaps directly with Effinature's requirement to combat soil sealing and heat islands. |
| Code env. | L214-1-eau | Narrow match | Indicative (50%) | Combating soil sealing reduces the run-off framed by the IOTA regime. |
| Code urb. | L151-22 | Narrow match | High | The purpose of L151-22 (non-sealed surfaces) covers the combating of sealing and heat islands of EFF-C-006; L151-22 is broader (overall biodiversity). |
| Code urb. | R151-43 | Close match | High | R151-43 allows the imposition of rules limiting sealing and greening obligations, the direct object of the combating of sealing and heat islands. |
| Code urb. | L101-2-ZAN | Broad match | Medium | The general objective of combating artificialisation (L101-2) encompasses the combating of sealing and heat islands of EFF-C-006, at an objective level. |
| Nomenclature ZAN | ZAN-ART-1 | Broad match | Medium | Category 1 qualifies sealing by buildings as artificialisation; EFF-C-006 requires combating soil sealing. The nomenclature measures/qualifies, Effinature prescribes the reduction: the ZAN provision is broader (accounting for all built sealing) than the operational Effinature requirement. |
| Nomenclature ZAN | ZAN-ART-2 | Close match | High | Category 2 (soils sealed by asphalt/concrete/paving) closely corresponds to the object of EFF-C-006 (combating soil sealing and heat islands), which aims precisely to reduce these surfaced areas. |
| Nomenclature ZAN | ZAN-DESIMPER | Close match | High | De-sealing counted as non-artificialised surface (deducted from the net balance) closely overlaps with Effinature's requirement to combat soil sealing (EFF-C-006): the same operational act, one counted by the ZAN, the other prescribed by Effinature. |
| HQE | HQE-BD-C1.1 | Close match | Medium | Sustainable development aims at limiting sealing and heat islands. |
| HQE | HQE-BD-C1.2a | Related match | Medium | Maximising the plot's greening combats sealing and heat islands. |
| HQE | HQE-BD-C5.2 | Related match | Low | The limitation of sealing overlaps with the combating of soil sealing. |
| Labels complémentaires | LPO-08 | Close match | High (80%) | Combating soil sealing = limiting the footprint on the living soil. |
| ÉcoQuartier | Engagement 20 | Broad match | High | The ÉcoQuartier's soil preservation/restoration encompasses this Effinature requirement for preserving living soil (state, quality, land use, sealing, CBS/open ground). |
| ÉcoQuartier | Engagement 16 | Broad match | High | The climatic resilience of the ÉcoQuartier (combating heat islands, de-sealing) encompasses Effinature's requirement to combat soil sealing and heat islands. |
| IFC PS6 | PS6-§25 | Close match | Medium (60%) | Mitigating impacts on priority ecosystem services and resource efficiency overlaps with sustainable water management, combating heat islands and building greening. |
| ESS6 | ESS6-§11c-services | Narrow match | Indicative (50%) | The affected ecosystem services (water regulation, heat islands, water supply) assessed by ESS6 overlap with Effinature's management of the water resource, stormwater and combating heat islands. |
| DGNB | ENV5-A | Close match | Medium | Limiting soil sealing / permeability ~ struggle against imperviousness and heat islands. |
| DGNB | ENV-DIST-MICROCLIMATE | Related match | Low | Urban microclimate adaptation / heat-island mitigation ~ anti-heat-island / imperviousness measures. |
| Green Star | GSB-RES-HEAT | Close match | Medium | Both reduce urban heat island effect via vegetation/permeable surfaces. Effinature: lutte contre l'imperméabilisation et les îlots de chaleur. |
| Green Star | GSDAB-LUE-HEAT | Close match | Medium | Heat Island Effect Reduction maps directly to Effinature's lutte contre l'imperméabilisation des sols et les îlots de chaleur. |
| CASBEE | Q3.3 | Related match | Low | Combating heat islands (Q3.3 on-site thermal improvement component) overlaps with Effinature's combating of sealing and heat islands. |
| CASBEE | LR3.5 | Close match | Medium | Both address heat-island mitigation through de-sealing and ground greening. |
| Green Mark / CBI | GM-UHI | Close match | Medium | Effinature's combating of soil sealing and heat islands corresponds to Green Mark's UHI mitigation through greening. |
| Green Mark / CBI | SI-10 | Related match | Medium | Combating sealing reduces the effective impervious area, at the heart of indicator 10. |
| Green Mark / CBI | SI-11 | Related match | Low | Combating heat islands mobilises cooling through vegetation, a benefit of indicator 11. |
| Green Mark / CBI | SI-20 | Related match | Low | UHI mitigation through greening constitutes a biodiversity response to climate change, partially covered (indicator 20). |
| Estidama | NS-1 | Related match | Low | Combating sealing by reusing already-artificialised soils. |
| Estidama | LBo-R3 | Related match | Medium | Combating heat islands via shading and greening. |
| Estidama | LBo-1 | Related match | Medium | Improvement of thermal comfort through reduction of heat islands (greening). |
| BREEAM Communities | SE 08 | Broad match | Indicative (55%) | The microclimate (heat islands, shading, greening) encompasses Effinature's combating of sealing and heat islands. |
| BREEAM Communities | SE 10 | Related match | Indicative (35%) | Climate adaptation partially overlaps with de-sealing/combating heat islands, but SE10 is broader (overall resilience). |
| BREEAM Communities | LE 02 | Related match | Indicative (40%) | Combating sealing overlaps with LE02's frugal land-use objective. |
| LEED | AÉS Crédit : Gestion des eaux pluviales | Related match | Indicative (50%) | The DFI infiltration approach combats soil sealing, a theme covered by EFF-C-006 (EVO). |
| LEED | AÉS Crédit : Réduction des îlots de chaleur | Close match | Medium (72%) | Reducing heat islands through green roofs and reflective surfaces overlaps with Effinature's combating of soil sealing and heat islands (EVO). |
| SITES | Soil+Veg C4.9 | Close match | Medium (70%) | Reducing heat islands = combating soil sealing and heat islands. |
| LEED-ND | SLL-C4 | Related match | Indicative (40%) | Steep Slope Protection limits the artificialisation/erosion of slopes; partial link with the combating of soil sealing (EFF-C-006). |
| LEED-ND | SS-C1 | Related match | Indicative (40%) | Combating sealing (EFF-C-006) - LEED limits impermeable surfaces and infiltrates at source. |
| LEED-ND | SS-C2 | Close match | Medium (60%) | Heat Island Reduction corresponds to the Combating of Soil Sealing and Heat Islands (EFF-C-006). |
| ARB IdF | IND-01 | Close match | High | Combating soil sealing and land sobriety pursue the same objective of avoiding the artificialisation of open-ground spaces. |
Source & licence
- Publisher : IRICE (groupe NORMAXIS)
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- Dataset version : 9.1
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