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The overall aim of the Capital City of Bratislava is to increase its resilience against expected risks of climate change and support the transition to carbon neutral city in the near future by gradual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions within certain sectors and by minimalizing its carbon footprint. The Project will be implemented via the following main activities:
- Development of the Action Plan for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation up to 2030,
- Complex building renovations and public spaces – Energy efficiency measures,
- Complex building renovations and public spaces – Green and blue measures,
- Measures to increase the city''s infiltration capacity,
- Community building activities.
Within the Project, two Bilateral Project Partners will cooperate. City of Reykjavik (Island) and the Agency for Water and Sewerage Works, City of Bergen (Norway) will be involved in working groups that have the role to develop the Action Plan in relevant thematic areas, invited as a presenter to the Project conference and to other Project events and consulted to develop future adaptation / mitigation actions based on its experience.
In addition, two Slovak Project Partners are involved: the Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava that will coordinate and supervise implementation of blue and green measures in public spaces as well as the communication strategy and other community level activities and the Comenius University in Bratislava - Faculty of Natural Sciences that will identify important inputs and indicators for the evaluation reports about climate change adaptation and about mitigation measures in Bratislava over the reporting period.
Target groups of the Project are inhabitants of the Capital city, with focus on elderly and children and youth.