Latvia’s $703.38 mn social climate plan gets EU backing

The European Commission has endorsed Latvia’s Social Climate Plan, the third plan under the new Social Climate Fund, advancing a clean-transition support package for vulnerable households and transport users affected by rising energy and transport costs.The programme is centred on cleaner buildings and sustainable transport. It covers renovations of individual houses, apartments and multi-apartment buildings; energy-efficiency upgrades for social housing and buildings providing social services with accommodation; and Energy Advisory Hubs for targeted advice to vulnerable households.

The plan will mobilise €617 million (~$703.38 mn) from 2026 to 2032, including €463 million (~$527.82 million) from the Social Climate Fund, with Latvia covering the remainder. It is the third plan endorsed under the fund, after Sweden and Lithuania, the European Commission said in a press release.

The European Commission has endorsed Latvia’s €617 million (~$703.38 mn) Social Climate Plan, the third under the Social Climate Fund.
It said the plan includes €463 million (~$527.82 million) from the fund for cleaner buildings, transport, electric vehicles, trains, and micro-mobility.
It covers vulnerable households, transport users, and micro-enterprises.

For transport, the plan will support electric-vehicle purchases by vulnerable transport users as well as social and healthcare service providers, a regulatory reform and investment for transport-on-demand solutions, new battery electric trains for rural and remote areas with high transport poverty, and micro-mobility measures including bicycle-sharing services in schools and bicycle parking at train stations.

Latvia prepared the plan in consultation with national stakeholders and in cooperation with commission services. Beneficiaries include people facing energy or transport poverty, beneficiaries of the national energy costs support scheme, those living in areas with limited public transport availability, vulnerable transport users and micro-enterprises.

For textile and apparel supply-chain planners following European Union (EU) clean-transition measures, the fund’s covered areas include energy efficiency, building renovation, clean heating and cooling, renewable-energy integration, and zero- and low-emission mobility and transport.

The Social Climate Fund runs from 2026 to 2032 and is expected to mobilise at least €86.7 billion, combining carbon-pricing revenues and EU countries’ contributions, added the release.

Latvia will be able to request a first payment in the first half of 2027 once implementation has started and the first investment results have been achieved.

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