A first form of the methodology that establishes the way to create green belts around Bucharest and other cities in Romania should be ready by the end of 2025, said Mihaela Frasineanu, state counsellor at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.

“Everyone wants this Forestry Code to transcribe the balance between the development of society, the health of the population, the protection of vulnerable communities and economic development. I believe that, after years of debate, sometimes very turbulent, we have reached an acceptable result. It is true that we still have a lot to do. When I say acceptable result, I refer to a project dear to me, which is now found in the Forestry Code, which started with Bucharest and Ilfov County, but which will soon extend to other cities in Romania. It is about green belts, a concept that civil society actually proposed, that we adopted by assumption, at the highest level and that we have already started to implement. Last year we started the planting actions around Bucharest,” said Frăsineanu, Agerpres reads.

“Personally, I wanted the methodology by which the way of creating these green belts around Bucharest is established has much greater power and to be a little rushed, I included this methodology in the priority plan of the Interministerial Committee for Climate Change. In this way, at the end of 2025, because this is the deadline, we will also have to have a first form of this methodology and it is important because those will be forest patches that will ensure that we have both spaces where we can recreate, but also that we have the necessary spaces, in which to breathe the cleanest air possible,” she added.