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Efficient Lighting Initiative (ELI) implemented by The World Bank, International Finance Corporation

Efficient Lighting Initiative (ELI)

This Cabinet of Ministers regulation lays down the principles, mandatory criteria and procedures for implementing green public procurement (GPP) in Latvia. It is designed to make environmental considerations a core part of public procurement by prioritising purchases that reduce lifecycle environmental impacts, including energy use, resource consumption and emissions throughout production, use and disposal. It supports sustainability goals by encouraging the inclusion of eco-labels, environmental management standards, renewable energy and energy-efficient products (e.g., electricity from renewable sources), and by allowing lifecycle cost assessment for energy-using products to inform the evaluation of economically most advantageous tenders. It also sets out rules for monitoring, control and reporting of compliance with green procurement criteria. Regarding energy consumption, the GPP Regulation states mandatory GPP criteria for:
<ul>
<li>imaging (printing) equipment;</li>
<li>computer engineering (hardware), ICT infrastructure, services of data centers;</li>
<li>in-door lighting;</li>
<li>street lighting and traffic lights;</li>
<li>construction of new buildings or renovation of existing ones, applies for, so called, the third group of buildings (included by the Amendments of July 2023);</li>
<li>purchase of cars and light duty vehicles (included by the Amendments of July 2023).</li>
</ul>

Regulation 353/2017 on the Requirements for green public procurement and their application procedure

To harness methane for electricity production that otherwise would have been emitted to the atmosphere, as well as to assist the management of solid waste around Riga, the project will remediate the existing Getlini landfill in Riga, install an advanced energy-cell technology for enhanced degradation of biodegradable waste, and collect landfill gas and use it for power generation.  In addition, the project will establish a sorting line for separation of recyclable materials, and provide technical assistance for the overall system.

Solid Waste Management and Landfill Gas Recovery

The Strategy is a long-term policy planning document designed to increase the economic competitiveness of the Latvian economy at the same time as limiting and reducing climate change, as well as to ensure a safe living environment for the people of Latvia. It is designed to support the European Union's overall climate-neutrality target by 2050. This document was released alongside the <a href="http://www.zrea.lv/upload/attach/2%20Latvijas%20Nacionalais%20energetikas%20un%20klimata%20plans%202021_230.pdf">National Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030</a> that is a mandatory communication to the EU. The document details the government's overarching goals and lines of action, examines and sets the emissions reduction low-carbon objectives across the economy's main sectors.

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