18 Member States are at risk of missing one or both of the 2025 targets.

Construction waste generated during the construction, renovation and demolition process occupies huge landfills due to significant volumes.

This Outlook can help decision-makers understand the direction in which we are heading and help to assess which policies can support a more circular economy. The OECD stands ready to assist governments in making this transition by designing, developing and delivering better resource efficiency policies for better lives.

A report by Ecologic Institute and Climact shows that the draft National Energy and Climate Plans presented by governments at the start of 2019 are in acute need of improvement. They suffer from inadequate targets and insufficient details on the policies and financing needed to move towards net-zero emission economies in Europe. Member States also need to do better in involving their national stakeholders in providing input to the plans, to benefit from their expertise and to get them on board for future policies. Good practice examples exist around the EU to serve as inspiration for the final plans due by the end of the year.

This Study to assess the implementation by EU Member States of certain provisions of Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, carried out for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment), investigates the situation in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU) as regards the landfilling of untreated non-hazardous municipal solid waste.

Study and Researh Farm (MPS) Vecauce was founded in 1921 and serves as the unique centre for research and educational activities for students of Latvia University of Agriculture (LLU), for pupils from agricultural colleges and all interests in advanced agricultural production. Biogas production was started in MPS Vecauce in 2008, when the first biogas plant (electricity 260 kW, heat 356 kW) utilizing plant biomass was comissioned in Latvia.

Presentation shown at the WTERT Bi-Annual Meeting 2010 in New York City

The report presents the situation of bio waste management in Latvia reflecting their usage as source of additional energy or soil fertilizer. There are given the methods used for bio waste treatment and presented the trends of the development of bio waste management system in the country

On behalf of the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania e.V. and financed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment WtERT Germany was to prepare a strategy paper for sustainable waste management in the Baltics and organize a workshop with clear recommendations and impulses.

Over the last few years, global energy demand has risen, and this trend is expected to continue. Almost all European Union (EU) countries are suffering from a shortage of energy services. Annually, EU fossil fuel energy production falls; for example, in 2014, gas production fell by 11.2% compared to 2013. Energy imports, especially natural gas, have increased as a result of lower energy output. The EU is still heavily reliant on fossil fuel imports (oil and gas), and the cost of EU energy imports in 2017 increased by 26% (€266 billion).