Every year, ambient air experts prepare annual reviews of pollutant emissions and their trends from local and diffuse emission sources in the country. This page provides an overview of air pollutant emissions in Estonia.

Surface water is all inland waters standing or flowing on the surface of the land and coastal waters, including the territorial sea. Surface water bodies are divided into flowing (rivers, streams, ditches, canals), stagnant (lakes, ponds) and coastal water bodies. To manage surface water bodies, they are divided into parts, i.e. clearly distinct water bodies, and their records are kept.

To address the challenges of waste data management, it is planned to implement data-driven reporting and dashboards that will solve issues related to data quality and detail, the time required for data processing, data freshness, as well as transparency and reliability of the data.