• Start year: 2012
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Based on the city’s passivity policy, all public buildings the
city constructs must be energy efficient. The city has undertaken
an ambitious construction project, its Palace of Justice,
to house all municipal and regional courts. The structure
is currently under construction and when finished will
be certified as a low-energy public building. At least 70%
lower energy consumption and 80% lower greenhouse gas
emissions must be achieved in comparison with conventional
constructions.

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: Completed

The city has planned construction of a “green neighborhood”
featuring seven residential blocks of flats and a number
of single-family houses. The flats have been included
in the national subsidized house-construction program for
young and low-income families. These are the first passive
houses in this part of Croatia. The first house was completed
a year ago, the second constructed this year. All flats
have been sold at very favorable prices, energy efficiency is
excellent and project greenhouse gas emissions have been
reduced by 63%.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Following energy audits completed by UNDP Croatia, the
city has designated 10 public buildings (kindergartens, primary
schools) for the national energy efficiency program
and ten additional public buildings for the second phase of
the same program. The public procurement process is currently
underway. Project partner: Kampus d.o.o.

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status:

Knowledge acquired from fourteen different partners in
fourteen EU countries with experience collecting and analyzing
climate change data, such as professional national
weather and climate institutions. The aim is to gain and
implement practical knowledge in several climate change
adaptation pilot projects.

• Start year:
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status:

An old orchard on the university campus has undergone extensive
replanting in which old and indigenous fruit trees
are being reintroduced alongside an educational project
that lets kindergarten children tend the orchard. The aim
is to collect and reintroduce resilient heirloom fruit varieties
requiring neither excessive amounts of water nor specially
treated and fertilized soil.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Previously all rainwater was transferred to the wastewater
treatment plant with a resultant loss of freshwater and undue
burden to the system, which used energy for treating fresh
rainwater in the same way as wastewater. Now, an alternate
system is being built to discharge rainwater into the stream
that passes through the city, restoring vibrancy to the stream,
making it more attractive and keeping its biodiversity alive.