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Description
The ambition of the City of Snina is to become an innovative city and to find solutions how to improve the climate in the city, as well as in the region of Upper Zemplín. Target groups of the Project are the inhabitant of the City of Snina, with special focus on elderly, children and youth, who are among the most vulnerable groups and the marginalized Roma community. Under the Project, the Action Plan of City of Snina will be elaborated and suggest the solutions how to heal the climate in the city and how to adapt to the climate change. The City of Snina, in cooperation with the Bilateral Project Partner – the NIBIO from Norway, will cooperate on a comprehensive integrated climate change system to address new innovative approaches to protecting the municipalities against floods, drought and climate change as a very important part of urban planning. Within the Project, implementation of hard mitigation and adaptation measures is planned – e. g. revitalization of parks and tree alleys, thermal insulation of buildings, rain gardens at public buildings and within the housing estates, low-emission vehicles to support green mobility and reconstruction of public lighting to smart one.
Project targets on general public and youth population.
Summary of project results
The Project aimed to address following challenges in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation:
- Elaboration of the city Action Plan for climate change mitigation and adaptation to clarify what specific investment and non-investment measure the city needs to take to improve the quality of life of its citizens.
- Implementation of technical measures to reduce CO2 emissions and increase city resilience towards climate change.
Following individual hard measures on climate change mitigation and adaptation were implemented in the city of Snina within the Project: 3 tree alleys, thermal insulation of 2 buildings, 2 green roofs, 4 rain gardens at public buildings, 4 reconstruction of public lighting including the system, 2 electric bicycles, 2 electric cars, replacement of lighting of the office in municipality.
Overall, 20 measures on climate change mitigation and adaptation were implemented.
About 0.3 % of Slovak population benefits from living in more climate change resilient and responsive area of city of Snina.
Summary of bilateral results
Bilateral Partner, NIBIO from Norway, provided supportive expertise for Project promotion.