The framework Inclusive Green Growth
Digital for Green Transition
By 2030, a digital backbone powers climate action, environmental monitoring and a just green transition.
Contributes to CPD outcome: Inclusive Green Growth
The reality and the drivers
Where we start
Systemic fragmentation
Fragmented mandates require a structured, multi-level coordination mechanism. While numerous digital initiatives exist, they operate as isolated islands. Some innovations remain trapped at the pilot stage or within a specific governance level, failing to scale into nation-wide coordinated systems. Policy-makers have a fractured view of the country's nature and climate reality.
Lack of Data, Interoperability and Anticipatory Governance
Persistent data gaps and interoperability issues affect monitoring (pollution, biodiversity, waste) and financial planning. The system lacks sufficient anticipatory capacity to address emerging EU regulatory requirements, creating compliance risks. In some areas, the sector is in a "data-rich, information-poor" state as data are not aggregated and converted into useful information for communities, policymakers, academia, and others.
Insufficient Capacities and Inclusion Efforts
The public sector's ability to manage the green transition is dependent on external support. There is a need for practical guidance, especially around financing instruments, regulatory design, and practical implementation guidance for municipalities and small businesses. Just transition still needs to be addressed. The innovation, economic development, health, finance, and youth dimensions need to be more strongly engaged in the green transition.
Key trends shaping change
What is driving the shift
Expected CBAM "Shock" as of 2026
CBAM compliance is also a digital challenge. It requires continuous, granular digital tracking of carbon intensity at the facility level (MRV). Reliance on manual reporting, estimated values, and annual averages may be insufficient to meet the EU's rigorous verification standards.
Green Finance Regulatory Frameworks
Regulatory frameworks for green finance are being established to attract sustainable investments, indicating a shift towards integrating environmental criteria in financial systems. As financial institutions move to algorithmic ESG scoring (EU SFDR, EU Taxonomy), verifiable environmental data are of the essence.
Strategic planning to reach decarbonization and adaptation targets
BiH is advancing strategic climate planning, including the integrated National Energy and Climate Plan, to meet EU-aligned decarbonization and adaptation targets. Delivering on both mitigation and resilience goals depends on a robust digital backbone, e.g., digital MRV for emissions, data systems for monitoring climate risks, early warning systems, anticipatory planning, etc.
Our plan
What we will do, 2026-2030
8 areas of engagement where UNDP will work with partners to deliver this pillar.
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Multihazard Early Warning System (MEWS)
Building on DRAS work, coordinate and support state and entity level institutions to develop an early warning system based on mobile technologies to deliver uniform, real-time alerts to local communities, in line with the EU acquis.
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Digital Enablers of the Circular Economy
Support Industry 4.0 applications (IoT, AI, smart manufacturing) and digital tools such as digital product passports and product-as-a-service platforms that enable circular business models, reduce resource use, and link the green transition to private-sector competitiveness.
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Digitalization for nature and biodiversity
Support protected areas in the country through digital presence and promotion, and "citizen science" initiatives for the preservation of nature and biodiversity.
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Support country-wide Environmental Information System
Support the development of an integrated Environmental Information System that connects key environmental registries and datasets, enabling harmonized monitoring and reporting across all governance levels and alignment with EU environmental reporting requirements.
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Digital Twins for Watershed Management
Support technological upgrades of hydrological stations in the Sava and Adriatic river basins to create predictive simulation models for flash-flood scenarios (utilizing Artificial Intelligence), and ensure automated data exchange between entity agencies.
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EMIS for Residential Sector and SMEs
Expand the Energy Management Information System (EMIS) from public buildings to provide SMEs with free digital tools to track energy intensity, and implement a residential module to target heating subsidies for energy-poor households.
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Digital MRV for CBAM / Sustainable energy
Support development of secure databases (potentially Blockchain) for the Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of greenhouse gas emissions, for heavy industry to comply with the EU CBAM by providing facility-level data.
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Digital for ESG
Leverage digital tools to help companies comply with international sustainability standards and run ESG pilots (e.g., advancing sustainable events management and offsetting unavoidable emissions via the TvojCO2.ba platform).
Partner with us on this
Let's deliver Digital for Green Transition together
These areas are an invitation. If your organisation can co-design, co-fund or co-deliver any of them, we want to hear from you.