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Description
The planned visit will strengthen bilateral relations, exchange of experience and transfer of the best practices, enhance common project results and mutual understanding between counterparts engaged from the donor country/Norway and beneficiary country/Latvia. The initiative will help to gain a better understanding on how Norwegian partner NEA could assist the LEGMC, and the CSB in implementing the planned activities of the pre-defined project.
The key topics of discussion are related to:
- Division of the collection and provision of the regional and municipal data related to the transport and
Summary of the results
4 representatives of pre-defined project “Integration of climate change policy in sectoral and regional policies” promoter (MoEPRD), 4 representatives of the project partners from Latvia (LEGMC, CSB), 6 Norwegian project partner’s (NEA) representatives, as well as 2 representatives from the Norwegian Climate Services Center and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute participated in the experience exchange event. The initiative supported a better understanding on how project partners could provide a practical assistance in implementing the activities planned in the pre-defined project and shared their experiences on the integration of climate change policy into sectoral and regional policy in Latvia and Norway. In addition, approaches related to the development of sectoral and regional climate data collection and reporting system to support the planning and implementation of regional climate change policies and the development of a warning system were discussed. During the meeting, common issues and requirements for successful launch of the project were discussed - the need for partner involvement, the expected outcome and outputs of the project activities. In addition, the Latvian delegation had an opportunity to visit the rainwater infrastructure facilities in the Oslo residential area, adapted to extreme weather conditions. Improvement of urban infrastructure to adapt to the climate change is based on climate change policy in Norway implemented by the NEA.