Country profile - Future developments (Latvia)

The main environment goal for the next decade is to ensure environmentally friendly living conditions by enforcing sustainable development, preserving environmental quality and biodiversity, ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources as well as public access to environment information and participation in the decision‑making process.

The following activities are foreseen to reach this goal:

• reducing the level of air pollution,
• improving water quality and increasing the number of connections to water infrastructure services,
• reducing consumption of water,
• reducing the amount of generated waste and increasing the proportion of recycled waste,
• remediating the most polluted sites and reintroducing commercial activity,
• preserving biodiversity and increasing public awareness about the significance of the value of nature,
• promoting the use of environmentally friendly technologies.

The environment priorities will be implemented according to the Environmental Policy Strategy 2009–15. Nevertheless, the implementation is largely dependent on available financial resources. And, sustainable consumption and production patterns must be widely introduced and used.

Links:

• Latvian Governmental Links  

Chancery of the President of Latvia

Saeima (Parliament of Latvia)

Cabinet of Ministers

• Ministry of the Environment 
• Central Statistical Bureau 
• The Latvian Institute