According to the Bank’s website, this new multi-sector Framework Loan (FL), following up on the existing ones with the City of Lublin, will finance investment programmes/plans under the City's Multiannual Financial Framework and support the Urban Development and City Climate Strategies goals.
Investments include the construction and renovation of social facilities (e.g. schools), cultural and sports facilities, sustainable urban mobility, green areas and open spaces, as well as IT systems. It will also address social and affordable housing. All these schemes are anticipated to have an individual cost below 40 million and are therefore considered small under a FL.

This FL encompasses urban development schemes that are part of the ongoing Lublin Investment Plan. These schemes support the implementation of the City's Urban Development Strategy and Climate Strategy, including the 2030 Lublin Adaptation Plan to Climate Change and the existing Air Quality Programme.
The objective is to continue supporting the City of Lublin to implement its Urban Development Strategy and related Plans aimed at achieving a development based on the promotion of natural resources and ecology, by reducing CO2 emissions and smog. In 2019, the City adopted its new 2030 Climate Adaptation Plan, updating the previous document from 2015, to enhance its capacity to adapt to climate change. The plan focuses particularly on water management, especially concerning the Bystrzyca River, improving biodiversity, and mitigating the effects heat waves.

According to the Environmental and Social Data Sheet, during construction the main Project’s impacts are expected to be primarily related to traffic and accessibility disruptions, noise, vibration, dust emissions and, also the possibility of contamination of the ground and soil surface because of leakage of oils and petroleum substances. These impacts are expected to be short-lived, discontinuous and reversible. Furthermore, the construction impacts are expected to be addressed through adequate environmental management and monitoring plans.

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