Latvia

The Project aimed to empower children and youth to play an active role as contributors to societal resilience and to remove barriers to their active involvement in prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

The overriding goal of the Baltadapt Action Plan is to promote the implementation of the Baltic Sea Region Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and to specify priority activities for the macro-region in the field of adaptation to climate change

The aim of the Baltadapt project was to formulate an outline of a Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region, as well as an accompanying Action Plan with recommended actions and proposed guidelines for climate change adaptation.

This report reviews the availability of data in Latvia to report against the indicators recommended to measure the global targets of the Sendai Framework, and identify current gaps.

Latvia's population and econ­omy are exposed to earth­quakes and floods, with floods posing the greater risk.

This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Latvia, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, storm and wild fire.

In recent years, dramatic river flooding has occurred in several regions of Europe causing numerous casualties and the damage reached unprecedented proportions. The protection of human and capital assets from natural hazards is high in the agenda of the