Environment of Latvia in Figures: Climate Change, Natural Resources and Environmental Quality in 2023

The collection of statistics presents information on environmental investment and current expenditure on protection of natural resources and environment (sample survey data), it also contains information on the emission of polluting substances into the atmosphere from stationary sources, environmental quality, greenhouse gas emissions, consumption of energy resources, natural resources and utilisation thereof (material flow accounts, resources efficiency), forestry and waste management in 2023. The indicators are comparable to the previous years and in some tables are broken down 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.