Introduction

Belgrade, Serbia is located in Eastern Europe, not next to Russia, don’t get confused with that. It is actually right above Macedonia and below Hungary. Belgrade is about at the middle of Serbia.

Map of Europe

Location of Belgrade

Serbia is in the climate region that has warm summers and cold winters. The summers start out warm but it starts raining towards the end. Autumns are usually rainy and cold. Winters are also rainy and cold at the beginning but it starts snowing towards the middle of winter and throughout the beginning of spring. Normally snow melts in the middle of spring and it starts to get a bit warmer but it is also a bit rainy. Serbia technically has 4 season climate.

Serbia has natural resources such as limestone, gold, silver, and salt. Surprisingly Serbia uses natural gas for an energy resource, but it also uses renewable resources such as hydropower, wind power, solar energy and geothermal energy. This makes the air quality better. It has less than 100000 gig grams of CO2 emissions. Air quality is one of the 3 most sustainable things in Belgrade; alongside it are innovation and environment standards.

Worst Sustainable Categories

Serbia's three worst categories are: Recycling, Green Building, and Standard of Living.

Recycling: in Serbia there are not many places to put different materials in different recycling bins. So we decide to put at least 3 big recycling trash cans for people to go and recycle. Also, we will add these bins to public places like malls and shopping stores. We also decide to put recycling bins right next to trash cans. We also made different advertisements about recycling and about if we don't what would happen to the earth.

An example of being unsustainable

Green Building: now days In Serbia they are starting to build apartments with cement. Before, they used to build houses with natural clay. Building with natural clay is more sustainable, also they are building with bigger spaces which are not sustainable. We decided to build multi-family houses. Also, those houses are made of clay which is natural and more sustainable. Also, more space for living is not sustainable, so with our new zoning style there is less housing space but more families living in the multi-family houses.

Standard of Living: in Serbia people do not get paid a lot so many people buy houses that cost more than they can afford. So we decided to make a law that states that if you do not have the specific amount of money to buy a house, you can take a loan only if you get paid enough to pay it back later.

Natural Resources Pie Graphs

We didn’t make any many changes to the food production. It was already sustainable enough in 2000. The only thing we did was that we reduced the amount of production in equal amounts from each type of food. We did this so that water wasn’t over used and so that not a lot of waste is made.

We reduced the amount of water usage greatly by evening the consumption out and without any facility using a lot of water. The most water a facility is using will be 0.787 km3, compared to hundred years before which was 3.361 km3.

 

We increased the source of surface water greatly because there are rivers and lakes in Belgrade that could be used as water sources. Wells could also be built to extract water sources. We didn’t change the source of precipitation because there was plenty as a source and it can always be used.

 

We increased the amount of geothermal energy and we also increased the amount of hydropower so that Belgrade can be even more sustainable. Coal and Oil are still not used because it damages the environment. Also, the amount of Natural gas has been decreased so that it cannot pollute the environment.

 

The amount of industrial energy consumption has been reduced, the less energy factories consume, the less pollution it makes. Every other facility consumes the same, it was sustainable enough a hundred years before it, or in other words, 2005.

Municipal Solid Waste has been greatly decreased because of the less food produced and the less water and energy consumed. Industries still make the same level of waste because of all the products that have to be made into the city.