All documents related to Green Deal | WB Green Agenda | Sustainable Development

• First Newsletter of the SmartWB project (Curricula innovation in climate-smart urban development based on green and energy efficiency with the non-academic sector)

  In this unprecedented era of increasing urbanization and the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other global...

• The Solution to Phasing our Coal in the Western Balkans? - Extending the EU ETS to the region

  The new geopolitical reality has given equally new impetus for EU enlargement to the Western Balkans. However, it’s often forgotten that the most acute and imminent risk in that region is the complete...

• Just Green Transition in the Western Balkans - Overcoming Transitions Fatigue

  “Just Green Transition” (JGT) is the term used today to describe the global crusade to transit from unsustainable economic models towards a carbon neutral economy. This process entails far-reaching technological...

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] Smart Cities Mission - Sarajevo, Elbasan and Podgorica on their Way to become Climate Neutral and Smart Cities (Green Deal)

  Jasmin Ademovic, President, City Council of the City of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina presented the topic above as part of the "Best Practice Highlights: Lessons and Success Stories" block of the first...

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] Overview of the Western Balkans Region on its Pathway to Implement the Green Agenda

  Miroslav Veskovic, Professor and Former Rector, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Former Senior Expert at EC JRC presented the topic above as part of the "Key Inputs for Setting the Scene" block of the...

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] JRC Report on the ‘Status of Environment and Climate in the Western Balkans’

  Claudio Belis, Senior Scientist – Project Leader, JRC, European Commission presented the topic above as part of the "Key Highlights and Insights on Instruments and Opportunities for Aligning Priorities...

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] The Western Balkans Agenda and how it works towards Alignment of the Thematic Priorities

  Keynote Talk from Bernhard Fabianek, Senior Expert for Horizon Europe Association, DG RTD, European Commission in the first Plenary Session of POLICY ANSWERS conference on "Policy Dialogue on Aligning...

• Riinvest Institute presents its latest Policy Brief on Carbon Tax and Decarbonisation

  Riinvest Institute has published its latest Policy Brief on "Carbon tax and decarbonisation in the context of the green transition in Kosovo". This overview sheds light on the importance of carbon ...

• CEI Plan of Action 2021-2023

  Elaborated by the CEI-Executive Secretariat, in cooperation with the CEI Member States*, the CEI Plan of Action 2021-2023 is conceived as a flexible and dynamic tool for manifold cooperation in the framework...

• Transition pathway for tourism

  On 10 March 2020, the Commission adopted a new industrial strategy. The aim was to help EU industry lead the green and digital transformations and to boost the EU's global competitiveness and open strategic...

• Western Balkan Investment Framework: Economic and Investment Plan Endorsed Flagship Investments 2020-2023

  In this document you find information about the Economic and Investment Plan for the Western Balkans and about the Western Balkans Investment Framework, and in particular the EIP Flagship Investments ...

• Participation of the Western Balkans in the EU Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe

  Information on the ongoing activities and projects at the Western Balkans in relation to the EU Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe.

• GreenFORCE Foster Research Excellence for Green Transition in the Western Balkans D4.2: Regional Mapping Report on Green Transition

  This report is the second deliverable of WP4 – Measuring and assessing impacts and costs of a just green transition in the Western Balkan (WB), of the GreenFORCE project.

• European Digital Twin of the Ocean

  An interactive replica of the ocean for better decision-making What is it? A digital space providing access to vast amounts of data, models, artificial intelligence and other tools, which will...

• EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change (FAQ)

  This document provides answers to questions raised by participants at information sessions. Some questions have been edited for clarity. It is a living document that will be updated with more questions...

• EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change (factsheet)

  The Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change focuses on supporting EU regions, cities and local authorities in their efforts to build resilience against the impacts of climate change. The Mission contributes...

• Towards Effective Industrial Policy in the Western Balkans

  Industrial policy has been largely overlooked in the Western Balkans for the past three decades. However, the region's economic struggles and the adoption of smart specialisation strategies have led...

• Soil health in the Western Balkans

  This study is a compilation of evidence to support the development of a soil component for a JRC Science for Policy Report on the “Status of Environment and Climate in the Western Balkans”1. This document...

• Scenario analysis of PM2.5 and ozone impacts on health, crops and climate with TM5-FASST: A case study in the Western Balkans

  The Western Balkans (WB) is a region in South-East Europe where the alignment of national legislations and policies with those of the European Union (EU) is in progress with the prospect of achieving...

• Strategy for Sustainable and Smart Mobility in the Western Balkans

  Greenhouse gas emissions in the region are largely coming from energy and transport sectors, encompassing two thirds of overall share. Transport sector represented 16 per cent share of these ...

• EU Missions. Concrete solutions for our greatest challenges

  EU Missions are a coordinated effort by the Commission to pool the necessary resources in terms of funding programmes, policies and regulations, as well as other activities. They also aim to mobilise ...

• BE-Rural Policy Brief: Mainstreaming the Bioeconomy in Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) Projects in the Western Balkans

  Methodology This policy brief presents recommendations for regional-level public administrations in Western Balkan countries, which aim at maximising the use of IPA III funds through the support of bioeconomy...

• Women Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans - economy factsheets

  Gender statistics play an important role for evidence-based policy making in support of women entrepreneurship. Hence, a thorough review of gender statistics in the Western Balkans, with a specific focus...

• Economic Conference Montenegro 2022 - Discussions about the Future

  The publications represents a summary of the Economic Conference of Montenegro in 2022. The Conference on the Economy - Montenegro 2022 was organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro and held...

• [FOCUS ARTICLE] The European “Green Deal” for the Western Balkans - Becoming climate neutral by 2050

  In the recent Berlin Process Summit, the Western Balkans endorsed a Declaration on Energy Security and Green Transition in which the leaders committed to redoubling their effort to implement the Green...

• Youth demands for quality climate change education

  This document summarizes the findings of a global survey and focus group discussions on young people’s learning experiences and demands on quality climate change education, based on responses from about...

• EU Soil Strategy for 2030

  Reaping the benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature and climate. The EU soil strategy for 2030 sets out a framework and concrete measures to protect and restore soils, and ensure...

• Sofia Declaration on the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans

  During the Western Balkans Sofia Summit, held on 10 November 2020, region reached important milestone by endorsing the Leaders’ Declaration on the Green Agenda that aligns with EU Green Deal. Declaration...

• Declaration on Energy Security and Green Transition in the Western Balkans

  At the Berlin Summit, Western Balkan leaders adopted the Declaration on Energy Security and Green Transition, underlining their commitment to the European Green Deal and enhanced regional cooperation ...

• Circular economy action plan

  The EU’s new circular action plan paves the way for a cleaner and more competitive Europe. The European Commission adopted the new circular economy action plan (CEAP) in March 2020. It is...

• Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

  The EU’s biodiversity strategy for 2030 is a comprehensive, ambitious and long-term plan to protect nature and reverse the degradation of ecosystems. The strategy aims to put Europe's biodiversity...

• Forging a climate-resilient Europe - the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change

  he European Commission adopted a new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change (February 24, 2021), setting out the pathway to prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change and become climate...

• MSCA Green Charter

  This guide will help you understand the role of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Green Charter. You will learn why environmental sustainability is important to the MSCA and how the Green Charter...

• How to work in the green economy? Guide for young people, job seekers and those who support them

  When choosing professional future, many young people, sensitive to planetary issues, would like their future job to be consistent with their convictions and help to bend the carbon curve. However, for...

• Roadmap of Green Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in the Western Balkans

  Green Entrepreneurship Roadmap of Western Balkans has been designed to provide a concrete overview of the existing ecosystems and map the relevant stakeholders in the countries who are fostering the development...

• Energy Crisis in the Western Balkans: Measures undertaken amid energy price shocks

  Balkan Green Foundation (BGF) with the support of Heinrich Böll Stiftung (HBS), published the research "Energy crisis in the Western Balkans: Measures undertaken amid energy price shocks”. This research...

• Urban sustainability in Europe - Post-pandemic drivers of environmental transitions

  The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published a report on 'Urban sustainability in Europe - Post-pandemic drivers of environmental transitions'. The report was released on 12 October 2022 and finds...

• ÖGfE Policy Brief 15’2022: The social impact of air pollution in the Western Balkans

  Environmental degradation is an alarming problem in the Western Balkans. Air pollution was the fourth greatest risk factor for human health globally in 2019. The European Union (EU) aspires to promote...

• EU Action Plan: 'Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil'

  Towards zero pollution for air, water and soil. Pollution harms our health and our environment. It is the largest environmental cause of multiple mental and physical...

• The Green Agenda: Providing breathing space for Western Balkans citizens?

  Across the Western Balkans, air, water and soil pollution levels are incredibly high. Public health is continuously jeopardised by air pollution arising from local heating sources and energy production...

• Find your EU funding programme for the environment

  Supporting the environment under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework and NextGenerationEU This guide provides a detailed description of those 2021–2027 MFF funding programmes and instruments...

• Deep Demonstrations

  EIT Climate-KIC’s response to the climate emergency has been to focus our efforts on systems innovation, to generate options and pathways for radical transformations in whole countries, cities, regions...

• Roadmap Towards the Circular Economy in Montenegro

  The Roadmap - Towards the Circular Economy in Montenegro aims to steer the transition to a circular economy in Montenegro. It is based on systemic thinking and outlines the main drivers, horizontal...

• Green Agenda for the Western Balkans (GAWB) and its Action Plan

  The Green Agenda for the Western Balkans is a regional strategy focusing on sustainable economy in line with the European Green Deal. It aligns the region with the EU's ambition to make Europe carbon-...

• Powering the Future of the Western Balkans with Renewables

  The power systems of the Western Balkans are the most polluting in Europe. Their transformation towards renewables has begun to take shape. Yet, the pandemic, together with the war in Ukraine, have ...

• Study: Increased wheat price spikes and larger economic inequality with 2°C global warming

  Highlights Greater global wheat yields but steeper price spikes under 2°C warming 2°C warming deepens traditional global wheat trade spatial pattern Trade liberalization could expand economic...

• Innovative financing of the sustainable development goals in the countries of the Western Balkans

  Background This paper is related to the current stage of development in the Western Balkans. Despite becoming growing instruments to finance sustainable green development, debt swaps and social...

• The SDGs Framework in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  In September 2015 Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with 192 United Nations Member States, committed to implement Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030), which consists of 17 Sustainable...

• Towards a green & digital future

  This study examines how the green and digital transitions can be successful. Both the green and the digital transitions are political priorities of the European Commission that will shape our future in...

• Exploration of impact investment for skills creation: Existing actions, emerging trends, implementation modalities, best practice. A case study with relevance to the Western Balkans region

  This study provides an overview of impact investment and skills creation in innovation, covering the main features of impact investment, the historical development of the phenomenon, and how it ...

• A Partnership for Sustainable Development: Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2021-2025

  This Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (CF), adopted by the BiH Council of Ministers at its 22nd Session on 16 December 2020 and reconfirmed by the BiH Presidency at its 114th Extraordinary...

• Status of Environment and Climate in the Western Balkans

   Accurate and complete environmental information is at the basis of sustainable development. This report summarises for the first time the status of air, climate, water and soil in the Western Balkans...

• Sustainable development in the European Union : Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context. 2022

  Sustainable development objectives have been at the heart of European policy-making for a longtime, firmly anchored in the European Treaties (1) and a mainstream part of key projects, sectorial policies...

• Transitions performance index 2021: Towards fair and prosperous sustainability

  The Transitions Performance Index (TPI) 2021 is the second edition of a new composite indicator, which measures the performance of countries along four transitions: economic, social, environmental and...

• GreenComp - The European Sustainability Competence Framework

  The development of a European sustainability competence framework is one of the policy actions set out in the European Green Deal as a catalyst to promote learning on environmental sustainability in the...

• UNESCO Science Report: Southeast Europe (Chapter 10)

  For countries in Southeast Europe (chapter 10), integrating the European Union (EU) remains an overarching policy goal. There are some positive signs: the region has surpassed its target for the number...

• State of implementation 2020

  There are plenty of indications that the Energy Community is not stagnating but actually moving forward on the path of energy transition, and has in some cases passed the point of no return. Without a...

• 2020 Strategic Foresight Report: Charting the course towards a more resilient Europe

  President von der Leyen’s political guidelines set a strategic long-term direction to achieve the transition towards a green, digital and fair Europe. They lay out a path for Europe to become the first...

• Wiiw Policy Briefs and Reports: Value Chain Integration of the Western Balkan Countries and Policy Options for the Post-COVID-19 Period

  In this policy brief, we study the development of trade integration, specifically the participation in global value chains, of the Western Balkan countries.

• GENDER ANALYSIS 2020 EC COUNTRY REPORTS FOR THE WESTERN BALKANS

  This is the third Kvinna till Kvinna Gender Analysis of EC Country Reports for the Western Balkans. The aim is to show progress year on year in the gender-mainstreaming of the Country Reports and attempt...

• Guidelines on the Circular Economy for Western Balkan countries and Turkey

  This guideline report is designed for civil society organisations and people interested in contributing to the transition towards a circular economy in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The report provides...

• Programme of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region

  Slovenia assumes thePresidencyof the EU Strategy for the Adriatic andIonian Region (EUSAIR) from 1 June 2020 – 31 May 2021.It puts green connectivityat the forefront by introducing it to all the relevant...

• JRC Report: RAW MATERIALS: Critical Raw Materials for Strategic Technologies and Sectors in the EU, A Foresight Study

  This study looks at the supply chains of the nine technologies below used in the three strategic sectors renewable energy, e-mobility, defence and aerospace. It also attempts to provide a first answer...

• Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019

  The Regional Risks for Doing Business report offers a business perspective on the impact of global risks and illustrates how they are experienced differently across regions. In an increasingly complex...

• Can R&I save the day?

  While research and innovation (R&I) are at the core of the response to the pandemic itself in the areas of virology, vaccines development, treatments and diagnostics, it will be crucial also in the...

• European Cultural and Creative Cities in COVID-19 times

  Empty cultural places, drastically reduced mobility and tourism blockade as an effect of COVID-19 confinement measures not only generate an evident economic damage to cultural institutions, companies ...

• Western Balkan Countries: 20 years of cooperation with the EEA

  This publication is a short overview of the key developments in, and achievements of, the Western Balkan countries’ cooperation with the EEA over  the past 20 years and a glimpse into the way ahead...

• The entrepreneurial employee in public and private sector – What, Why, How

  Entrepreneurial employees that drive innovation and change have become a sheer necessity for many established organisations in public and private sector. This report gives a science-based overview of ...

• WATER JPI Strategic Research &Innovation Agenda 2025

  The purpose of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) is to lay down guiding principles and identify research priorities for the future, while making them openly accessible to the various...

• Water JPI Vision 2030 document

  The Water JPI Vision 2030, “Together for a Water-secure World”, outlines what the Water JPI aims to achieve during the next 10-year period (until 2030) and sets out the roadmap for all Water JPI activities...

• ESIR Report: Protect, prepare and transform Europe: Recovery and resilience post COVID-19

  ESIR is a high level advisory group to the European Commission on how to develop a forward-looking and transformative research and innovation policy.

• THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Economic impact, policy responses, and short-term sustainable solutions

  The COVID-19 pandemic hit the six Western Balkans1(WB6) amidst a reacceleration of economic activity and promising economic outlook for 2020 (EC, 2020). With the rapid spreading of the coronavirus in ...

• From nearly-zero energy buildings to net-zero energy districts: Lessons learned from existing EU projects

  The implementation of the EU 2020 energy and climate targets triggered the transformation of Europe’s neighbourhoods to net-zero energy districts (NZED). The Report review and analyses the cases of frontrunner...

• Digitally-enabled Development for a Sustainable Future in Eastern Europe

  This JRC Report is based on the materials and presentations delivered during theinternational conference on “Digitally-enabled Development for a Sustainable Future in Eastern Europe”, convened in ...

• Status of air pollutants and greenhouse gases in the Western Balkans

  The adoption, implementation and enforcement of Chapter 27 of the EU acquis on Environment is an obligation for accessing countries. Reducing the emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHG) ...

• Quartely Review of academic literature on research and innovation

  This is a Quartely Review of academic literature on research and innovation for the first quarter of 2020. The current issue provides several insights on sustainability. We had a particular ...

• A new Circular Economy Action Plan For a cleaner and more competitive Europe

  The European Commission adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan - one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe's new agenda for sustainable growth.

• [WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletter] - Sustainable Development | European Green Deal

  Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services...

• [Focus Article] - Western Balkans warms up to European Green Deal

  The Western Balkans have a critical role to play in meeting the EU’s objective of a climate neutral Europe by 2050 – the overarching objective of the European Green Deal.   European Commission...

• JRC Technical Report: Analysis of the water-power nexus of the Balkan Peninsula power system

  Abstract: The operation and economics of the power systems are constrained by the availability and temperature of water resources since thermal power plants need water for cooling and hydropower plants...

• New WBIF Publication: Investing in Clean Energy in the Western Balkans

  The Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF) has released the fourth edition of the publication “Investing in Clean Energy in the Western Balkans”. Prepared with the support of the Energy Community...

• Event Report: Digitalisation and New Technologies in Agri-food and S3P Agrifood's International B2B meetings

  The report and presentations from the Digitalisation and New Technologies in Agri-food and S3P Agrifood's International B2B meetings that were held in December 2019 in Malaga (Spain) are now available...

• European Green Deal: Roadmap - Key actions

  Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. To achieve this, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal, the most...