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Home > Archives for Latvia

Latvia

Needs and priorities for biodiversity funding: a comparative analysis of Latvia and Estonia

February 22, 2024

This briefing provides an overview of the priorities for national biodiversity needs in Latvia and Estonia.


Following the money: Latvia 

December 22, 2023

This briefing provides an overview of the just transition envisioned in Latvia’s Territorial Just Transition Plan for the four regions designated to receive money from the Just Transition Fund.


A truly nature friendly investment – support for the development of Blooming meadows

December 18, 2023

This case study demonstrates a new pilot programme which is designed specifically to help these grasslands and the landowners managing them. 


A Latvian forest the size of 237 football pitches cut down for an industrial park

November 17, 2023

A pristine biodiverse forest in eastern Latvia is being cleared to make way for an industrial park. Even though the project has yet to be approved, half the forest has already been logged to make way for the development. Not only that, the public consultation and social and environmental assessment have been inadequate. The project promoters now expect getting the green light.


Assessment of Latvia’s Territorial Just Transition Plan

February 22, 2023

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

February 15, 2023

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.


REPowerEU is a chance to prioritise renovating buildings in Latvia

November 30, 2022

Energy consumed in the residential sector accounts for up to 30 per cent of Latvia’s energy usage. Approximately 23,000 multi-apartment buildings need to be renovated, but only 1,600 buildings have been insulated since 2009, a renovation rate of 0.5 per year. Will Latvia seize the chance and use REPowerEU chapters for renovation?


Biodiversity forgotten in the Latvian recovery plan

April 8, 2021

There is less than one month left for Member States to submit their national recovery and resilience plans to the European Commission. Yet, the Latvian plan is still far from fulfilling the Commission’s requirements to allocate at least 37% of proposed measures to achieving climate objectives.


More of the same secrecy in Latvia and Romania as EU recovery funds planning gets underway

March 10, 2021

National Recovery and Resilience Plans have to be submitted to the European Commission by 30 April, 2021. Yet less than two months before the deadline, the latest updates from the Romanian and Latvian recovery plans raise alarm on public participation and on unambitious climate and energy targets.


District heating – the role of EU investments in Latvia

February 10, 2021

Heating is a basic need in Latvia, where the average heating season lasts 200 days. More than half (58%) of Latvia’s primary energy consumption is used for heating. This report from Bankwatch and Green Liberty analyses the district heating projects implemented in Latvia with the support of EU funds during the last 20 years.


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