The document summarizes the upcoming Environmental Performance Review of Lithuania by the OECD in 2021. The review will: 1) Provide an independent assessment of Lithuania's progress on environmental commitments and compare it to other OECD countries. 2) Identify successes, best practices, and challenges in Lithuania's environmental policy. 3) Formulate policy recommendations to help Lithuania advance its environmental agenda. The review will examine Lithuania's environmental objectives, plans, results, and actions across key areas like governance, green growth, and sustainable mobility. It will involve information collection, a virtual review mission with Lithuanian stakeholders, and a policy mission to discuss findings and recommendations.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
PERFORMANCE
REVIEW OF
LITHUANIA 2021
Virtual review mission, 26-29 January 2021

2. • Environmental performance
reviews (EPRs) are part of a small
OECD family of systematic peer
reviews.
• EPRs aim to encourage, through
peer pressure, greater accountability
of governments towards each other
and the public and, ultimately,
gradual convergence towards the
best performing countries.
Environmental performance reviews and
OECD peer reviews

3. What will the EPR of Lithuania do?
• Provide an independent, evidence-based
assessment of Lithuania’s progress towards
its national and international environmental
commitments
• Compare Lithuania to other OECD countries
• Identify success stories, good practices and
challenges
• Formulate targeted policy recommendations
to help Lithuania advance its environmental
policy agenda

4. What will the EPR of Lithuania look at?
Environmental objectives
Have they been clearly defined? Are they based on
an analysis of costs and benefits? Are they
measurable?
Intentions
What are the plans to achieve the objectives? If
results are not satisfactory, what actions are planned
to correct the trajectory?
Results
Do results match expectations? If yes, what are the
drivers of success? If not, what obstacles should be
overcome?
Actions
What has been done to reach the objectives? Was it
the most efficient and effective way to get there?
Within the
context of
Lithuania’s
historical
environmental
record, natural
resource
endowment,
economic and
social conditions
In comparison
with other OECD
countries
(benchmarking)

5. Structure and content of the review
Assessment and
recommendations
1. Key environmental
trends and
developments
2. Environmental
governance and
management
3. Green growth
4. Sustainable mobility
Main findings and policy recommendations in each
area covered by the review
Indicator-based analysis of Lithuania’s progress in
managing its natural assets, improving environmental
quality and reducing the carbon intensity of its
economy
Review of Lithuania’s environmental institutional and
regulatory frameworks and mechanisms to ensure
compliance with environmental regulations
Assessment of Lithuania’s efforts to mainstream the
environment into the country’s economic and sectoral
policies and to promote the greening of the economy
Analysis of Lithuania’s mobility trends and their impact
on the environment as well as of the country’s policy
instruments to promote sustainable mobility

6. Information
collection
June –
December
2020
Virtual
review
mission
26-29
January
2021
Policy mission to
discuss main
findings and
recommendations
at high level
April/May 2021
Discussion
at the
OECD
30 June
2021
Publication
September/
October
2021
Key steps and dates

7. • Central government
o Ministries and agencies in charge of
environmental policy making and
implementation
o Other ministries and agencies
• Local government
• Non-government stakeholders
o Environmental NGOs
o Independent experts
Virtual review mission and consultations:
26-29 January 2021

8. Focus of meetings and consultations
Open dialogue and discussion on Lithuania’s
environmental performance in the last decade
• What has worked well and why?
• What has not worked that well and why?
• What lessons can be learned for the future?
• What do the national and local governments,
businesses and civil society need to do to improve
Lithuania’s environmental performance?
Success stories, best practices, challenges and potential
recommendations

9. Reviewing countries
Ms. Alda Ozola
Alda.Ozola@varam.gov.lv
Green growth (Ch. 3)
Latvia
Ministry of Environmental Protection and
Regional Development
Ms. Laura Behan
LauraBehan@dttas.gov.ie
Sustainable mobility (Ch. 4)
Ireland
Department of Transport
OECD Secretariat
Ms. Nathalie Girouard
Nathalie.Girouard@oecd.org
Head of the EPI division
OECD Environment Directorate
Mr. Eugene Mazur
Eugene.Mazur@oecd.org
EPR co-ordinator; Ch. 2 – Environmental
governance and management
Mr. Alexander Mackie
Alexander.Mackie@oecd.org
Ch. 1 – Key environmental trends and
development
Mr. Nils Axel Braathen
Nils-Axel.Braathen@oecd.org
Ch. 3 – Green growth
Ms. Carla Bertuzzi
Carla.Bertuzzi@oecd.org
EPR statistical support
Ms. Tatiana Samsonova
Tatiana.Samsonova@itf-
oecd.org
Ch. 4 – Sustainable mobility International Transport Forum
The OECD review team

10. THANK YOU!