Slovenian Development Strategy 2030.

The Slovenian Development Strategy 2030 is a multi-sectoral national strategy with the primary objective of providing a high-quality life for all, achieved through balanced economic, social and environmental development which takes account of the planet’s limitations and creates conditions and opportunities for present and future generations. One of the strategic orientation for a high quality of life is a well-preserved natural environment achieved through strategy’s development goals of a low-carbon circular economy and sustainable natural resource management.
To help with the cross-cutting issues of making the natural resource management more sustainable the strategy focuses on two main directions: A) Regarding a low-carbon circular economy efforts will focus on breaking the link between economic growth and growth in consumption of resources and GHG emissions, which will be possible through education and including various stakeholders in the transition to a circular economy; promoting innovation, the use of design and information and communications technologies to develop new business models and products which use raw materials and energy more efficiently and through adaptation to climate change; replacing fossil fuels through the promotion of EE and the use of RES in all areas of energy use, while harmonising interests in cross-cutting areas: water – food – energy – ecosystems; ensuring that infrastructure and energy use in transport support the transition to a low- carbon circular economy and allow sustainable mobility, including through the introduction of new concepts of mobility and increasing the share of public passenger transport; and using spatial planning to design nodes for the low-carbon circular economy and development solutions at the regional and local levels.
B) Regarding the sustainable natural resource management efforts will focus on introducing an ecosystem-based approach to the management of natural resources and by moving past the sectoral way of thinking, among other ways through the timely harmonization of national and cross-border interests in cross-cutting areas with regard to water – food – energy – ecosystems, which will also have to change and adapt in the future due to the consequences of climate change; effectively managing surface water and groundwater, coastal and maritime resources, and achieving their good status; ensuring the sustainable development of forests as ecosystems from the perspective of their ecological, economic and social functions; preventing excessive pollution of all components of the environment; preserving a high level of biodiversity and quality of natural features and strengthening ecosystem services; sustainably managing soil and preserving soil ecosystem services, preventing further soil degradation and rehabilitating degraded soil; sustainably protecting and preserving high-quality farmland and promoting agricultural practices in order to increase in-country supply with local sustainable supply, particularly the production of organic foods, which have a positive impact on human health; providing a high-quality living environment along with responsible and effective land use management, priority use of functionally degraded areas, on the basis of harmonised priority and counterbalancing tasks, including in the light of more harmonised regional development; creating management systems at all levels in order to provide the most effective adaptation to climate changes and the optimal exploitation of the resulting opportunities.
Regarding governance, the strategy is supported by sectoral strategies, regional and municipal strategies and programmes and operational measures. The body responsible for development has been tasked with heading up the drafting of the national development policy programme together with the Ministry of Finance and with the active participation of all government departments. Performance indicators include material productivity, share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption, and GDP per total greenhouse gas emissions.