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The draft Green Infrastructure Strategy of the City of Belgrade estimates the necessary investments to establish green infrastructure and ecosystem services for a healthy, safe, and comfortable living environment for the residents at RSD 3.3 billion (EUR 28.2 million). The Faculty of Forestry produced the document.
The Secretariat for Environmental Protection of Serbia’s capital city has launched a public debate on the draft Green Infrastructure Strategy of the City of Belgrade with a Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment Report.
The overview period began on November 7 and it will last until November 25. A public presentation of the draft is scheduled for November 15 at the city administration building, according to the local authority.
The overall goal of the draft is to establish green infrastructure and ecosystem services for a healthy, safe, and comfortable living environment for residents, the document reads.
The document’s authors listed the main factors endangering the quality of the environment and the lives of residents:
- growing climate hazards due to climate change,
- air pollution,
- natural processes of urbanization,
- loss of functionality of green infrastructure elements,
- soil surface temperature,
- surface runoff concentration,
- soil degradation.
A total of 15 measures were proposed
Investments needed to implement the strategy during the period of the 2025-2027 action plan are estimated at RDS 1.4 billion (EUR 12 million), of which RSD 1.2 billion (EUR 10.2 million) from the budget and RSD 216 million (EUR 1.8 million) from donations.
The total costs of implementing the strategy for the period 2025–2032 are valued at RSD 3.3 billion (EUR 28.2 million).
Fifteen measures were proposed, and the most expensive ones are:
- strengthening technical and production capacities of institutions and public utilities (modernization of equipment and application of sophisticated tools and materials for construction and maintenance of elements of green infrastructure) – RSD 631 million (EUR 5.4 million),
- integration of innovative green infrastructure solutions into other purposes of the use of space (roof gardens, vertical greenery, urban pockets, green spots, rain gardens) – RSD 577 million (EUR 5 million),
- expanding the forest area – RSD 410 million (EUR 3.5 million).
One of the proposals is to analyze the modalities for the establishment of a new public enterprise that could be called Šume Beograda, which means the forests of Belgrade. Its main task would be to manage urban, suburban, and non-urban forests in city territory.
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