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GCAP Green City Action Plan for City of Belgrade March 2021 Green City Action Plan for City of Belgrade Information class: Standard Issue and Revision Record This document is issued for the party which commissioned it and for specific purposes connected with the above-captioned project only. It should not be relied upon by any other party or used for any other purpose. Revision Date Originator Checker Approver Description We accept no responsibility for the consequences of this document being relied upon by A 04/09/2020 Ivana Dušan Phil Le Gouais Draft GCAP any other party, or being used for any other purpose, or containing any error or omission Vićanović Savković which is due to an error or omission in data supplied to us by other parties. Marijana Pantić This document contains confidential information and proprietary intellectual property. It Miodrag should not be shown to other parties without consent from us and from the party which Grujić commissioned it. 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Miodrag Grujić C 29/01/2021 Ivana Dušan Phil Le Gouais Consultation Draft Vićanović Savković GCAP Seth Landau Miodrag This Action Plan was prepared by Mott MacDonald Limited for the Grujić benefit of the City of Belgrade. Any views, opinions, assumptions, D 25/03/2021 Ivana Dušan Phil Le Gouais Final GCAP statements and recommendations expressed in this document are those Vićanović Savković of Mott MacDonald Limited and do not necessarily reflect the official Seth Landau policy or position of the City of Belgrade. Miodrag Grujić The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Republic of Japan donation fund, or the City of Belgrade do not accept any Document reference: 399874 | 1 | D responsibility whatsoever with regard to any claims of any nature by any third party relating, directly or indirectly, to EBRD’s role in selecting, engaging or monitoring Mott MacDonald Limited and/or as a consequence of using or relying upon the services of Mott MacDonald Limited. This Action Plan has been funded mutually by Republic of Japan and EBRD. 399874 | 1 | D | March 2021 Green City Action Plan for City of Belgrade Contents 3 Action Plan 45 3.1 Identification of Actions 46 3.2 Evaluation of “Long List” 47 3.2.1 Multicriteria Assessment 47 Foreword vii 3.2.2 Application of Weightings 49 3.2.3 Ranking of GCAP Options 49 Executive Summary 8 3.2.4 Overall Assessment of GCAP Actions 50 What are the priority environmental challenges? 8 3.3 Urban Planning and Mobility 51 What are the plan’s goals? 9 3.3.1 Current framework 52 3.3.2 Key Challenges 53 1 Introduction 11 3.3.3 Objectives and Actions 55 3.3.4 Actions 57 1.1 What is a green city? 12 3.4 Energy and Efficiency 84 1.2 How this plan was produced 13 3.4.1 Current framework 85 1.3 Relationship to SECAP 17 3.4.2 Key Challenges 86 3.4.3 Objectives and Actions 87 2 Baseline 19 3.4.4 Actions 89 2.1 General Facts 20 3.5 Water and Waste 114 2.2 Spatial coverage of SECAP/GCAP in Belgrade 21 3.5.1 Current framework 115 2.3 Current Policies and Strategies 22 3.5.2 Key Challenges 115 2.4 Current performance 24 3.5.3 Objectives and Actions 117 2.4.1 How is the current State of the Environment? 3.5.4 Actions 118 24 3.6 Greening and Resilience 139 2.4.2 What are the current Pressures on the 3.6.1 Current framework 140 Environment? 27 3.6.2 Key Challenges 141 2.4.3 Social and Gender Considerations 40 3.6.3 Objectives and Actions 143 2.4.4 Smart Cities Potential 41 3.6.4 Actions 144 2.5 Priorities and Strategic objectives 42 399874 | 1 | D | March 2021 Green City Action Plan for City of Belgrade 4 Financing Options 149 6 Summary of Benefits 162 4.1 Summary of City’s Financial Status 150 6.1 Introduction 163 4.2 Sources of Potential Finances 151 6.2 Key Environmental Benefits 165 4.3 Assessment of Actions against Financing Options 152 6.2.1 Air Quality 165 6.2.2 Biodiversity 166 5 Implementation 156 6.2.3 Water Use 166 6.2.4 Land Use 166 5.1 Institutional Arrangements 157 6.2.5 Material Use 167 5.1.1 GCAP Coordination Board and Sector Champions 157 6.2.6 Energy Use & Climate Change Mitigation 167 5.1.2 Green City Coordinator 158 6.2.7 Climate Adaptation 170 5.1.3 Sector Coordinators 158 6.3 Key Social and Gender Co-Benefits 170 5.2 Monitoring Framework 159 5.2.1 Institutional Measures 160 Appendices 174 5.2.2 Target-setting and Data Quality Improvement Measures 160 5.2.3 Tool-developing Measures 160 5.2.4 Monitoring, Preventive and Corrective Measures 160 5.2.5 Monitoring Investment Measures 161 399874 | 1 | D | March 2021 Green City Action Plan for City of Belgrade Foreword Dear fellow citizens, result in a contribution to the fight against climate change. By implementing these actions, we will create new "green" jobs, which will accelerate the economic growth of the City. In front of you is the strategic document Green City Action Plan, which was created in a transparent and participatory way in cooperation with experts As a doctor, I am aware that a clean environment has a positive effect on from Serbia and Europe and with representatives of the civil sector. the health of our citizens, and that is why the concept of a "green city" is Together we have defined projects that will improve life and work in our city my vision of Belgrade. It is important that we invest in new parks, in in accordance with European environmental standards. expanding the network of bicycle and pedestrian paths and in creating conditions for better living habits and improving the health of our citizens. According to United Nations projections, 68% of the world’s population will With this approach and by investing in ecology, we send a clear message live in cities by 2050, suggesting that cities, as world centres of economic that it is necessary to change the awareness of the environment and to development, play a major role in protecting the environment and preserve and improve it. combating climate change. The Green City Action Plan 2030 is also a The European Union has decided that all member states will be climate continuity of the policy of sustainable neutral by 2050, which means that carbon dioxide emissions must be zero.