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Transboundary pollution

Though environmental problems are often of local origin, they usually manifest themselves over a much wider territory, and in the long run sometimes transform into regional or even global problems. Examples of this would be marine pollution, eutrofication, acid rain, climate change and ozone layer depletion. Of course, solving such problems would have global, regional and local impact. Therefore, when solving a specific problem, internal national interests should be co-ordinated with international ones; reasonable economic and environmental policies should be elaborated with an emphasis on local problems, but at the same should also consider limiting transboundary pollution from Latvia.

In this section, groups of problems connected with transboundary air pollution (including global climate change and ozone layer depletion) and transboundary water pollution are discussed.

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Last updated: November 8, 1996. The information prepared by Valts Vilnitis: fuxis@varam.gov.lv