Wroclaw is the best for the third time and with a special award
‘We are happy to have received another award of this kind. In the age of climate changes, it is a serious challenge to protect the greenery that we already have and to develop it so that it would serve as a blue-green infrastructure of the city. This year, our efforts to make Wroclaw greener and more ecological have been recognised,’ said Katarzyna Szymczak-Pomianowska – Head of the Sustainability Department of the Wroclaw City Office, who received the statuette on behalf of Mayor Jacek Sutryk.
‘We carry out many projects, such as Grey into Green, Catch the Rain, I Like Rain or Grow Green, under which 6 pocket parks were opened in Ołbin at the end of 2019, and we have greened Daszyńskiego street. We are ready to pass on our experiences from this project to other cities,’ added Katarzyna Szymczak-Pomianowska.
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The city received also a special award for the aforementioned projects. As the organisers stressed, ‘these initiatives contribute to an increase of urban green areas and an improvement of air quality and give us the possibility of using rainwater.’ It is Wroclaw’s third triumph in the Eco-Miasto competition. Earlier the capital of Lower Silesia wonin the following categories: water management (2015), sustainable mobility and water management (2016). In addition, the city received distinctions in 2013 and 2017.
Eco-Miasto project
Eco-Miasto is a Polish nationwide project aimed at popularising the idea of sustainability and granting awards to Polish cities most committed to environment protection.
All Polish cities and municipal associations, irrespective of their size, are invited to participate in the competition This year’s competition was divided into five categories: water management, urban greenery, waste management, sustainable mobility and energy efficiency.
In each category of the competition, two awards will be granted: for cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants and with less than 100,000 inhabitants. Nearly 100 cities have taken part in the editions of the Eco-Miasto competition held so far.
