Kosovo : Country Environmental Analysis

A Kosovo CEA is a World Bank analytical tool used to integrate environmental issues into development assistance strategies, programs, and projects. To that end, the CEA synthesizes environmental issues, highlights the environmental and economic implications of development policies, and evaluates the country's environmental management capacity. Kosovo is landlocked and possesses many mineral resources, mainly coal, lead, zinc, chromium, and silver. Current industrial activity and a legacy of former practices have heavy health and environmental impacts and generate economic losses. The environmental priorities for the next five years are completing environmental legislation in harmony with the European Union (EU) acquits; gradually fulfilling EU standards and efficiently carrying out and incorporating environmental legislation and methodologies in all sectors; and setting up and expanding institutions for the implementation of environmental policies. Kosovo seems to spend less on environmental protection as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than some neighboring EU-10 countries. Waste management, water, and air quality have been the main priorities for capital expenditures in recent years and much of the capital spending on environmental projects has been made by municipalities, as they have a core competency to provide several environmental services, including green areas and waste management. A hefty share of environmental financing also seems to come from international donors.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013-01
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION, AGED, AIR, AIR EMISSION, AIR EMISSION REDUCTIONS, AIR EMISSIONS, AIR POLLUTANTS, AIR POLLUTION, AIR QUALITY, AIR QUALITY MONITORING, AIR QUALITY STANDARDS, AQUATIC LIFE, ASH, AVERAGE COSTS, BACKYARD BURNING, BIODIVERSITY, BUSES, CADMIUM, CANCER, CAR, CARBON, CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, CARBON MONOXIDE, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS, CARS, CHILD MORTALITY, CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, CIVIL SOCIETY, CLEANER AIR, CLEANER FUELS, CLEANUP, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, COAL, COMBUSTION, COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, COMPLIANCE COSTS, COSTS PER VEHICLE, DEATH RATE, DECISION MAKING, DEFORESTATION, DIESEL, DIESEL FUEL, DIESEL VEHICLES, DIOXINS, DRINKING WATER, DUMPS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC IMPACTS, ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS, ECONOMISTS, EFFLUENTS, EMISSION REDUCTIONS, EMISSION STANDARDS, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS FROM POWER GENERATION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENERGY GENERATION, ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS, ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM, ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS, ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE, ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS, ENVIRONMENTAL TAX, EXPENDITURES, EXTERNALITIES, FARMS, FECAL CONTAMINATION, FINE PARTICLES, FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION, FOOD PROCESSING, FOREST, FOREST DEGRADATION, FOREST SPECIES, FORESTRY, FORESTS, FREE ZONES, FUEL, FUEL CONSUMPTION, FUELS, GAS EMISSIONS, GASOLINE, GASOLINE VEHICLES, HAZARDOUS WASTE, HEALTH EFFECTS, HEAVY METALS, HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES, HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS, HOSPITALIZATION, HOUSEHOLD WASTE, HUMAN HEALTH, HYGIENE, INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS, INDUSTRIAL WASTE, INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER, INDUSTRIAL WATER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, INSPECTION, LABOR FORCE, LAND RECLAMATION, LAND RESOURCES, LANDFILLS, LAWS, LEAD EMISSIONS, LOGGING, LUNG FUNCTION, MEDICAL TREATMENT, METAL, METHANE, MINES, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, MUNICIPAL WASTE, NATURAL GAS, NATURAL HERITAGE, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEGATIVE IMPACT, NITROGEN OXIDES, NITROUS OXIDE, OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, OIL, OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION, OXYGEN, OZONE, PARTICULATE MATTER, PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS, PATIENT, PATIENTS, P,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17485553/kosovo-country-environmental-analysis-kosovo-country-environmental-analysis-cea https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13216
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