Under the regional project Green Agenda: Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Balkans implemented by GIZ, the Municipality of Prishtina has launched its comprehensive Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) and Urban Mobility Action Plan. This study applies the framework of the GIZ Climate Risk Sourcebook (2023) to establish a data-driven, empirical foundation. The findings integrate climate resilience directly into Prishtina’s future Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) updates, local climate action planning, and municipal capital infrastructure procurement frameworks.
Prishtina’s rapidly growing urban core combines a highly car-dependent ecosystem with a topographically constrained basin. This pressure is severely compounded by the historical channelling of its primary streams underground, destroying open blue cooling infrastructure and limiting natural water absorption. The assessment identifies critical multi-hazard vulnerabilities across the transport network.
