Latvia is considered to be one of the greenest EU member-states, in the same time data show that household consumption pressures on environment are increasing. During the last 15 years per capita ecological footprint has more than doubled. The consumption clusters with greatest impact on environment are food, housing and mobility.

The project Participatory SCP policy assessment, carried out by Action Town partner Green Liberty in Latvia, aims to identify main driving forces behind our consumption patterns and propose policy recommendations to enable sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in Latvia. This is being done by bringing together environmental NGOs and scientific community from Latvia (at least 10 people from different institutions) and running series of participatory co-creation workshops to discuss the methodology, assessment tools and recommendations for SCP policy development.

Until now Green Liberty has carried out 2 workshops, discussing driving forces of consumption and policy tools for sustainable consumption development in Latvia. During these workshops experts have created mind maps with main driving forces in each of the three consumption clusters and indentified main policy tools for SCP. This will be followed with the third workshop focusing on the policy recommendations.

For the main driving forces for sustainable and unsustainable consumption, click here.

Watch this space for more information from the project.