National meeting of the Low-Carbon Investment Network in Riga

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On 5 March 2020, RTU organized a workshop entitled “Investing into energy and climate projects in Latvia”. Martins Zemitis from the European Commission Representation in Latvia introduced the EU Green Deal and the forthcoming EU legislation in the area of sustainable finance. Boriss Kņigins from the Latvian Ministry of Finance shared the challenges and opportunities for financing climate actions in the next EU programming period 2021-2027. Agris Kamenders of RTU presented estimates of investment needs and current investment into energy transition of Latvia prepared by our project. David Rusnok and Ingmar Jürgens of Climate & Company introduced the methodology developed to prepare a capital raising plan for Latvia. This work will be conducted by our project in 2020.

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In the CIC2030 project, IKEM is examining the investment needs to finance the 2030 climate protection goals in Germany, Latvia and the Czech Republic.

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