Supporting SMEs to participate in public market opportunities

70% of the distributed water comes from surface groundwater or from rivers, making it highly contaminated. Drinkable water faces shortages and transport systems are obsolete. This sector needs modernisation, quality control and tracking of pollution levels.

65% of GHG emissions come from industrial production, 10.7% of GHG emissions come from the waste sector.

The country wishes to emancipate itself from fossil fuel, thus representing a suitable territory for biomass energy, derived from agricultural waste.

Water supply systems are outdated, and infrastructure is deteriorating for decades. Large cities do not have wastewater treatment plants. High investment needs for infrastructure compliant with EU regulations (rehabilitation of water supply systems, tariff policy and establishment of wastewate4r treatment plants).

The Government of Serbia has adopted the Waste Management Program for 2022-2031, as part of the negotiations about the accession to the EU. The main problems and challenges related to waste management are an insufficient coverage with services of municipal waste collection (86.4%).

Serbia’s national power utility EPS produces nearly 70 percent of the country’s electricity from coal and nearly 30 percent from hydropower, with a small percentage coming from wind and solar. The Serbian government and EPS have announced plans to transition to green energy solutions and reduce Serbia’s dependence on Russian natural gas.

70% of the distributed water comes from surface groundwater or from rivers, making it highly contaminated. Drinkable water faces shortages and transport systems are obsolete. This sector needs modernisation, quality control and tracking of pollution levels.

97.8% of waste originates from the industry, representing more than 256.9 million tons. This issue was classified as a priority in the recent government objectives, but the current infrastructure is not sufficient enough to combat the problem yet.

The country commited itself to attain 25% of energy production coming from renewable sources such as biomass power (up to 11.5%).Numerous opportunities in solar and wind energies.