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Assessment of Latvia’s Territorial Just Transition Plan

Briefing | 22 February, 2023 | Download PDF

Latvia’s just transition regions – Latgale, Vidzeme, Zemgale and Kurzeme – are supposed to stop extracting and using peat for energy. Instead, with the help of EU funding allocated to various measures and projects through a Territorial Just Transition


Riga’s climate neutrality planning: an example of realistic ambition and public engagement

Briefing | 15 February, 2023 | Download PDF

This briefing provides an overview of the planning process Riga city council took when designing the Riga Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan Until 2030, as well as insight into the plan itself.


Joint Statement On the Expansion of the Emerald Network in Countries of the Western Balkans by scientists and representatives of NGOs

Statement | 13 February, 2023 | Download PDF

In early December 2022, 39 scientists and representatives of NGOs from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Switzerland joined efforts to prepare a shadow list and a map o


Biodiversity on the brink: What’s holding back financing for nature in the EU?

Report | 7 February, 2023 | Download PDF

This report provides insights into a number of significant barriers at the national level to financing nature restoration and conservation measures, such as authorities’ lack of knowledge about what constitutes biodiversity, insufficient collaboration between actors and excessively restrictive funding criteria. It also includes recommendations for both the EU and national levels.


What is the current state of the just transition processes in Bulgaria?

Briefing | 30 January, 2023 | Download PDF

This briefing summarises just transition planning in Bulgaria thus far, reviewing the TJTPs’ compatibility with EU requirements and the overall process’s alignment with the partnership principle. It provides recommendations for improving just transition in the upcoming period.