Green Go! Infrastructure Supporting Sustainable Development of Rural Areas Case Study Presentation Mr. Bartłomiej Józef Kozek, RCE Warsaw Metropolitan Europe Regional Meeting 2019 13-14 September, 2019, Heraklion, Greece

1. Green Go! Infrastructure Supporting
Sustainable Development of Rural Areas
Bartłomiej Kozek, UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre

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UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
• Promoting the mission of UN
Environment in Poland since
1991.
• Connecting different
stakeholders for the purpose of
strenghtening the sustainable
development of the country.
• Part of the RCE Warsaw
Metropolitan Consortium,
focusing on environmental
education and knowledge
transfer.

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SDGs as a call to action
• Close relationship
between climate
change and food
security.
• Polish context:
limited water
resources make
the agricultural
particularly
vulnerable.

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Green Go! In Theory
• Enhancing the knowledge on the
role of green infrastrucure and
methods of its creation and
protection.
• Mapping local nature with a
particular focus on agricultural
land.
• Creating links and partnerships of
local stakeholders focusing on
protecting and developing green
infrastructure as places of
biodiversity.
• Partcipants: local authorities,
pupils, inhabitants.

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Green Go! In Theory
• Timeframe: 2015-2017.
• Financial suport of the National Fund
for Environmental Protection and
Water Management.
• Honorary patronage of two ministries
(Environment, Agriculture), marshals
of Mazowsze and Lubelskie
voivodships.
• 187 pupils engaged.
• 483 cataloged green networks.
• 15 Local Green Infrastructure
Databases.
• A geoportal mapping green
infrastructure in the researched areas.

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Green Go! #ForThePlanet
• Showcasing potential risks to
agriculture and biodiversity.
• Citizen Science in practice.
• Analysing the current state and
possible future developments.
• Connecting different
stakeholders for local eco-
development.
• Building a database on green
infrastructure and best
practices.

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Green Go! In Practice
• Mroków, Lesznowola
commune (Warsaw
metropolitan area).
• Information gathering:
a) Field work.
b) Talks with local authorities.
c) Talks with other citizens.
d) Meetings with experts.
e) Using the geoportal.

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Green Go! In Practice
• Key insights:
a) Presence of buffer zones along
most of local streams and lakes.
b) Most of the lakes overgrown
with plants, some - burried.
c) Places of local biodiversity and
natural water filters.
d) Polluton risks from agriculture.
e) Risks from further development
of local commerce centre in
Wólka Kosowska.

9. Contact
UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
National Fundation for Environmental Protection in Poland (branch)
ul. Sobieszyńska 8, 00-764 Warszawa
www.gridw.pl