Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Balkan Mountains

Infrastructure

Thermal Power plants

Power lines

Oil pipelines

Mining

Existing

Oil refinery Oil terminal

Existing

Planned or under construction

Hydro

Planned or under construction

10 2007 2012 %

Contribution to GDP

Nuclear

0

5

Gas pipelines

LNG terminal

Existing Planned or under construction

Zagreb

CROATIA

Mining sites

Production value in 2012 Millions of USD 1 600

Serious water pollution

Beograd

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

4 200

Sarajevo

SERBIA

MONTENEGRO

Major freight corridors

Pristina

TO POLAND AND EASTERN EUROPE

TO GERMANY

Podgorica

Kosovo*

TO RUSSIA

TO ITALY

TO BLACK SEA

Zagreb

Skopje

500

Beograd

FYR MACEDONIA

Tirana

Sarajevo

Pristina

120

Podgorica

TOTURKEY AND ASIA

ALBANIA

Motorway (doubled by railway) Railway (for which no motorway alternative exists) Pan European corridors

Skopje

50 km

Tirana

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

Sources: IEAandUNDP,2008, “Energy in theWesternBalkans.ThePath toReformandReconstruction”; ICMM,2008, “The roleof mining in nationaleconomies”;C.Stuhlbergeretal.,2009, “Miningandenvironment in theWesternBalkans”,EnvironmentandSecurity Initiative; A.Kirbyetal.,2012, “WestBalkanEnvironmentalCore Indicators”,EuropeanEnvironmentAgency.

TO GREECE AND MEDITERRANEAN BASIN

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