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Estonia excels at being green in all possible metrics that matter for quality of life and ease of doing business. Over half of the country is covered in dense forests, making it one of Europe’s most forested nations. It also boasts continental Europe’s cleanest air and runs on e-governance systems that minimise paper waste.
Since regaining independence, the country has slashed its annual carbon footprint by 60% while growing economically and building the OECD’s best tax system. But it’s still a work in progress to become even more sustainable, as Estonia aims for climate neutrality by 2050. To power this transformation, the country is opening the region’s biggest solar and wind parks, introducing storage capacity into the grid, and considering small-scale nuclear energy projects.
Last year, Estonia was a European leader in slashing emissions. The progress continues: while the European Union saw greenhouse gas emissions rise by 3.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, Estonia once again bucked the trend by achieving emissions reductions.
According to Eurostat data released in August 2025, Estonia was one of only seven EU member states to reduce emissions during the quarter. It joins its fellow Nordic states Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and other European economies such as Latvia, Luxembourg, and Malta in this select group.
The electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning sector drove much of the bloc’s emissions increase with a 13.6% surge, while household emissions rose 5.6%. Total emissions reached 900 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents, up from 871 million tonnes in the same quarter of 2024, while the bloc’s GDP grew by 1.2%.
