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Green Liberty

Green Liberty (“Zaļā brīvība” in Latvian) is a non-profit NGO founded in 1993. Our mission is to contribute to the development of a society where people live in harmony with each other and the environment.

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Green Liberty aims at raising awareness about social and environmental implications of current trends in consumerism, trade and globalization, empowering people to make meaningful decisions connected with their lives directly and indirectly and opposing abuses of power.

Green Liberty participates in several international networks: CEE Bankwatch Network, Climate Action Network Europe (CAN), European ECO Forum, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Reloop, and national networks: Association ‘Social Entrepreneurship Association of Latvia’, Environmental Consultative board, and Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation (LAPAS). 

Green Liberty organizes press briefings, conferences, exhibitions, public lectures, expositions, and runs webpage and online campaigns. Green Liberty publishes environmental information, organizes different cultural and environmental actions, as well as does studies on socio-environmental issues and works on sustainable development and lifestyles, development issues and particularly on fair trade, climate and energy and waste related issues. Green Liberty also advocates government on sustainable development and environmental policy integration in various sectoral policies.

Key Areas of Activity and Expertise

Global or development education

Green Liberty works in global education via projects that are focused on mediasolidarity economyfair trade, and sustainable tropical fruits and supermarket private label products. We are organizing CSO seminars, workshops, and lectures. We actively engage people in discussing development issues, inform them about connections between development and environmental issues, and global impacts of local processes. We also work on fighting myths and misconceptions about development.

Climate and Energy

Green Liberty is actively involved in advocacy work with national decision makers regarding climate and energy policy. At the same time, we follow European and international policy developments and we are a member of Climate Action Network (CAN) and CEE Bankwatch Network. We promote a climate-friendly lifestyle and work on climate education and research (carbon footprinting). Recently we published joined book with University of Latvia “Climate and sustainable development“. Our work contributes to informing society in Latvia about the implications of climate change and building an understanding of low carbon development and climate change-related global and local challenges.

Sustainable consumption

Green Liberty has longstanding experience in sustainable consumption. We have been involved in several projects related to the topic, e.g. EU 7th FW funded project “Action Town” looking for the ways NGOs can provide new insights for research on sustainable consumption and production with the goal of reaching absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource use. Green Liberty has published Consumer guide on sustainable living and regularly worked with media to popularize sustainable behavior. We have also done several studies on sustainable consumption and related topics, e.g. „Current Status and recent changes in consumption and production patterns in Latvia”, the background report for UNEP.

Waste and Circular economy

We are advocating for efficient use of resources, by promoting green public procurement, eliminating unsustainable subsidies and promoting green budget reform in Latvia. We have also done research and implemented campaigns to promote the zero-waste concept and the introduction of a deposit-refund system in Latvia. Currently we are working on the issues of food waste and global development.

Our team

Jānis Brizga
Jānis Brizga
Chairman of the Board
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Dace Akule
Expert in sustainable textiles
Ariana Apine
Ariana Apine
Project manager
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Lilija Apine
Project manager (on prolonged absence)
Inga Belousa
Inga Belousa
Education for sustainable development expert
atis-gailis
Atis Gailis
Board Member
Santa Krastiņa
Santa Krastiņa
Zero waste lifestyle expert
Dana Luse
Dana Lūse
Project manager
Agita Pusvilka
Agita Pusvilka
Expert in environmental anthropology
Rolands Ratfelders
Rolands Ratfelders
Nature diversity expert
Ingrīda Strazdiņa
Ingrīda Strazdiņa
Global development expert
Selīna Vancāne
Selīna Vancāne
EEB Board Member
Ieva Zālīte
Ieva Zālīte
Board Member & Green Library Coordinator
Linda Zuze
Linda Zuze
Climate and energy policy expert

We participate 

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Send us message

Contact us

Lapu iela 17, Rīga, LV-1002Latvia

Tel/Fax: +371 67 225 112

E-mail: info@zalabriviba.lv

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ZalaBriviba/