by Tibor Schaffhauser | Nov 22, 2021 | Events
The Finnish Institute in Hungary, FinnAgora and Green Policy Center will organize the Finnovation Conference on Circular and Low-Carbon Economy on Friday, 3 December from 9-12 online. The purpose of the event is to provide a concise picture of the challenges and...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | Nov 18, 2021 | Article
The COP26 in Glasgow did almost everything it could, but in the same time it didn’t. This is a short summary of the outcome of the 26th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the COP26 in short. We at the Green...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | Sep 1, 2021 | Events
We invite you to participate in the event “Climate ambition beyond emission numbers: an inside look from countries and sectors”, organized by IDDRI on September 9th 2pm-4pm CET, where the Green Policy Center has contributed to the description of climate ambition in...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | Jul 9, 2021 | Studies
While a growing number of countries announce their 2050 climate neutrality pledges and Contracting Parties of the Western Balkans have already committed to this target by the adoption of the Sofia Declaration, concrete long-term plans of action are still to be made. A...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | Jul 8, 2021 | Article
The European Commission has long been preparing and feeding information to the public on its new climate instrument to even the international trade playing field for European companies, the so-called Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). After the proposal has...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | Jul 6, 2021 | Events
Loss of water resources affecting agriculture and forestry or the access to quality drinking water; rising temperatures creating favorable conditions for the outbreak of vector-borne diseases and transitional population migration – climate change is already having its...
by Huszár András | Jun 29, 2021 | Article
The latest expert-level meeting of the subsidiary bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held from 31 May to 17 June to discuss important issues before the Glasgow COP at the end of this year. It was a session “full of firsts”, the...
by Huszár András | Jun 1, 2021 | Article
On 3 June last year, the Hungarian Parliament adopted Act XLIV of 2020 on Climate Protection. This legislation stipulated at the legal level that Hungary would reach the state of climate neutrality by 2050. With this, Hungary was among the first countries in...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | May 28, 2021 | Article
The European Council has reaffirmed its invitation to the Commission at its most recent meeting to develop a legislative package to reach the new climate ambitions of the Union – a work already long in the making under the title “Fit for 55”. At the Green Policy...
by Tibor Schaffhauser | May 24, 2021 | Events
We would like to invite you to a momentous online conference on 3rd June 2021 on achieving the 2050 Hungarian climate neutrality target, organized by the Green Policy Center and the Equilibrium Institute! The apropos of the Climate-neutral Hungary 2050...
