Environment of Latvia in Figures: Climate Change, Natural Resources and Environmental Quality in 2022

The collection of statistics presents information on environmental investment and current expenditure on protection of natural resources and environment (sample survey data), emission of polluting substances into the atmosphere from stationary sources, environmental quality, greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, natural resources and use thereof (material flow accounts, resources efficiency), forestry and waste management in 2022. The indicators are comparable with previous years and in some tables are presented in smaller breakdown by city.

The information on air protection, environmental quality, air emissions accounts, as well as generation of municipal and hazardous waste was developed based on the data of the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre.