Invitation for Presentation of the Green Cities Facility and Exploring the Possibilities for Municipal Project Proposals
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Green Cities Facility |European Bank for Reconstruction and Development| Green Climate Fund Invitation for presentation of the Green Cities Facility and exploring the possibilities for municipal project proposals Location: Ceremonial hall, Government of the Republic of North Macedonia Date: 14.11.2019, Thursday Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Language: Macedonian/English Background The EBRD Green Cities Facility strives to build a better and more sustainable future for cities and their residents. The Facility achieves this by identifying, prioritising and connecting cities’ environmental challenges with sustainable infrastructure investments and policy measures. The ultimate goal of the Facility is to deliver transformational change in municipal approaches to climate change planning underpinned by financial support for identified priority infrastructure investments. Skopje, the political, cultural and economic centre of the Republic of North Macedonia joined EBRD Green Cities in March 2019 with the aim of introducing its own urban greening Programme. Through committing to a Green Cities Action Plan (GCAP) the city will take a systematic approach to address its urban environmental challenges. The Facility will support the implementation of climate-focused infrastructure investment projects in beneficiary cities, which directly target cities’ climate challenges identified through the GCAPs. These projects will lower greenhouse gas emissions and increase the climate resilience of urban services in the region, while helping cities reach their targets set in the GCAPs. The Facility’s investments will focus on issues in urban infrastructure in sectors such as public transport, building energy efficiency, water and wastewater management, solid waste, district heating, municipal energy systems, street lighting and roads. Presentation participants 1. Green Climate Fund National Designated Authority 2. Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning 3. Ministry of Finance 4. City of Skopje 5. Centar Municipality 6. Karposh Municipality 7. Gazi Baba Municipality 8. Kisela Voda Municipality 9. Aerodrom Municipality 10. Gjorche Petrov Municipality 11. Butel Municipality 12. Shuto Orizari Municipality 13. Saraj Municipality 14. Cair Municipality 15. Local self government (ZELS) 16. EBRD team Purpose of the Meeting The purpose of the meeting is to present the possibilities for financing municipal environmental projects through Green Cities Facility, therefore to tackle environmental challenges on municipal level through implementation of projects in the sectors such as public transport, building energy efficiency, water and wastewater management, solid waste, district heating, municipal energy systems, street lighting and roads. Agenda 14 November 2019, Thursday Time Activity 09:45 - 10:00 Arrival, Registration 10:00-10:30 Welcome and Opening session Project importance – Green Cities development Ms. Olimpija Hristova Zaevska, International finance adviser to Minister of Finance and Technical Focal Point for the Green Climate Fund EBRD and opportunities in municipal sector in North Macedonia Mr. Andi Aranitasi, Head of EBRD North Macedonia Resident Office 10:30-11:00 Session 2 Green Cities Facility Project, possibility for municipal project application Mr. Nigel Jollands, Co-Lead EBRD Green Cities, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, EBRD Green Investment priorities under the Skopje GCAP and alternatives for financial support Mr. Guillaume Le Bris, Associate Director, Infrastructure, EBRD 11:00-11:20 Session 3. Questions and answers session 11:20-11:30 Conclusions, recommendations and further steps .