With political decisions taken about the future of Kosovo, it’s time to deal more seriously with the physical and social status of this part of the Balkans. “More seriously” means that sustainable development should be on everyone’s lips and in everyone’s minds. Kosovo needs development and it has to be sustainable in terms of economic growth, social welfare and well-being, and last but not least environmentally. And to be clear, this is the opposite way of the current trend; in other words, we have to break the trend of the unsustainable development of the past decades and particularly the years after the conflict.