Climate-4-CAST
The project Climate-4-CAST provides authorities with a tool to visualize and analyze various action scenarios for meeting climate goals to better plan public budgets with climate neutrality measures and monitor […]
Energy and Climate
Sustainability at the Heart of Progress: Sustainability and the principles of sustainable development have always been important to the Rīga City Council. The city development planning is already based on it, and work on the implementation of the UN’s sustainable development goals is also ongoing. Rīga is also one of the cities participating in the EU Mission for 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. To achieve this ambitious goal Rīga is facilitating challenge-driven innovations. The smart city’s focus is on sustainable mobility, green energy, data driven and nature-based solutions.
Projects
EUCITYCALC: Prospective modelling tool supporting public authorities in reaching climate neutrality
The aim of the project is to support public sector institutions in the process of climate neutrality planning in the context of European countries and cities moving towards climate neutrality, […]
UNCHAIN
Urban logistics and plaNning: AntiCipating urban freigHt generAtion and demand including dIgitalisation of urbaN freight (UNCHAIN) The project aims to facilitate public and private sector cooperation and data exchange and […]
EXPEDITE: Enabling Positive Energy Districts through a Planning and Management Digital Twin
EXPEDITE aims to develop and implement a new Digital Twin (DT) for real-time monitoring, visualisation and management of energy flows at district level. The project will provide a replicable set […]
MUSTBE: Multidimensional Storm Water Treatment in Urban Areas for Cleaner Baltic Sea
The stormwater treatment has been a tangible challenge along the Baltic Sea region. To contribute to a cleaner and more sustainable Baltic Sea, the Interreg MUSTBE project aims at improving […]
CITYAM: Preparing cities for sustainable urban air mobility
The project CITYAM equips cities with tools to improve airspace management in dealing with emerging urban air mobility and scaling drone operations. Urban Air Mobility (UAM), its increasingly important role […]
ATELIER: a path towards Positive Energy Districts
ATELIER is an citizen driven smart cities project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Smart Cities and Communities call. Coordinated by the City of Amsterdam, the project […]
Environmental and air quality monitoring station opened in Ķīpsala and its indicators are available to all citizens
As part of the expansion of the Kipsala Smart neighbourhood, an environmental and air quality monitoring station was opened in October, with measurements available to all on a screen on […]
LIFE LATEST adapt: Developing Nature Based and Smart Solutions for Improving Urban Climate Resilience in Riga
There is urgency of improving the climate resilience within territories of Baltic local governments, to solve practical urban climatecoping challenges as well as transform the regions to be more resilient […]
URBAN RELEAF: Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions
Project aim: Urban ReLeaf aims to co-create citizen-powered data ecosystems to support climate change adaptation, green infrastructure, and urban design planning across six partner cities in cooperation with established volunteer […]
