Directions of ISD Activities:
Energy - demand side management, increase of energy efficiency and support for renewable.
Transport - sustainable mobility, treating equally the road, rail, public and nonmotorized modes of transport
Rural areas - promotion of the sustainable development of rural areas with landscape and nature protection as well as non-farming forms of employment on rural areas (particularly through the development of tourism).
Urban areas - improving the living conditions of the inhabitants, controlling of city sprawl and sustainable use of city resources
Jobs - creation of environmentally friendly entrepreneurship and raising the environmental awareness of business
Climate protection - supporting the integration between climate policy and the economic development; working on changes of the public behavior towards more sustainable consumption; adaptation to climate change
Natura 2000 - promotion of the development which protects and strengthens the natural capital together with searching for patterns to use the areas with natural values for environmentally friendly local development - particularly through tourism
Competitiveness - creation of an economy which increasingly takes into account the external costs (environmental and social ones) and intends to phase out environmentally harmful subsidies
EU structural funds and Cohesion Fund - indicating the possibilities of the effective use of these Funds, strengthening of the sustainable development and preventing the excessive consumption of natural resources
Strategic assessments - expanding the scope of using of the strategic environmental assessments as an instrument to integrate environmental policy into other policies