National Comprehensive Green Transition Assessment Report for Moldova

The National Comprehensive Green Transition Assessment Report for Moldova evaluates the country's readiness to align with the European Green Deal (EGD). While Moldova has established strong legislative frameworks and ambitious climate targets, it faces significant gaps in implementation, governance, and financial mobilization. The report identifies a heavy reliance on international donor funding and highlights critical needs in energy decarbonization, building renovation, waste management, and biodiversity conservation to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

• Moldova has set ambitious climate targets, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to over 70% below 1990 levels by 2030, which exceeds the EU's interim target of 55%.
• The energy sector is the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions in Moldova, accounting for 69.2% of total national emissions in 2022.
• The building sector is a major energy consumer, with residential buildings alone representing 44% of total final energy consumption, yet renovation rates remain below 1%.
• Waste management in Moldova is predominantly linear, with over 90% of municipal waste being landfilled and less than 10% recycled.
• Moldova's readiness for 'Zero Pollution' is rated as 'Little Progress' due to fragmented inter-institutional coordination and limited monitoring systems for air, water, and soil quality.
• The agri-food sector contributes approximately 45% of Moldova's total exports and over 16% of its GDP, but it is highly vulnerable to climate change and lacks a structured approach to sustainable food systems.
• Transport is the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions at 30%, with emissions doubling between 1990 and 2020.
• Biodiversity is under severe stress, and the Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector has transitioned from a carbon sink to a net emitter due to deforestation.
• Moldova's green transition is heavily donor-dependent; between 2017 and 2022, it received approximately USD 2.7 billion in ODA-linked climate finance, but faces a significant funding gap to meet 2030 and 2050 targets.
• Research and development (R&D) investment is very low, with gross domestic expenditure on R&D at only 0.23% of GDP in 2022, far below the EU average of 2.2%.
• The National Commission on Climate Change (NCCC), established in June 2024 to coordinate national climate policy, remained non-functional as of January 2025.
• Moldova lacks a carbon pricing mechanism, such as an Emissions Trading System (ETS), which is necessary for compliance with the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

APA

L., T., R., I., N., C., T., E., & V., L. (2025). National Comprehensive Green Transition Assessment Report for Moldova. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nationalcomprehensiveassessment-moldova.pdf

Chicago

L., Tammiste,, Iordanov, R., Ciobanu, N., Echim, T., and Lahtvee, V. National Comprehensive Green Transition Assessment Report for Moldova. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2025. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nationalcomprehensiveassessment-moldova.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{l2025national, author = {L., Tammiste, and R., Iordanov, and N., Ciobanu, and T., Echim, and V., Lahtvee,}, title = {{National Comprehensive Green Transition Assessment Report for Moldova}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nationalcomprehensiveassessment-moldova.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }