climate

Budapest holds fourth climate summit

The fourth Budapest Climate Summit on December 4, brought together over 40 speakers from 25 countries to discuss climate change…

1 year ago

EU needs EUR 700bn/year to meet climate goals

Europe will require annual investments of more than EUR 700bn (USD 762.44bn) to meet its energy transition goals to combat…

1 year ago

EU states see green goals, Russian energy cuts as win-win

A coalition of 11 European Union states led by Denmark wants to accelerate the continent’s green transformation, in order to…

3 years ago

Hydrogen: a clean energy for the transition

In Europe and in Hungary, initiatives to expand use of hydrogen as an energy source have been given the green…

3 years ago

Czechia commits to 2033 coal phase-out

Czechia will stop burning coal by 2033, five years earlier than previously planned, the country's incoming governing coalition revealed in…

3 years ago

Nuclear firms vie for CEE’s last virgin market

A look at the inventory of world’s nuclear power plants reveals a surprisingly large gap in central Europe: Poland. The…

3 years ago

Poland u-turns on COP26 pledge to phase out coal

Polish Climate and Environment minister Anna Moskwa appeared to reverse Poland's commitment to cutting coal power by 2030 on Thursday,…

3 years ago

Hungarian Government Opposes Single EU Carbon Price Tax

The Hungarian government is opposed to the introduction of a single EU carbon price and extension of the EU's Emissions…

3 years ago

UN Climate Report Predicts Extreme Weather for Europe

Lots of extreme weather - including an increasing number of heatwaves, floods, etc. - is being forecast for Europe in…

3 years ago

Latvia: Striving for a Competitive Low-carbon Economy

Reading Time: 3 minutes While lawmakers in Latvia welcome the "Fit for 55" shift towards a low carbon economy, they’re…

3 years ago

EU Commission Approves Czechia’s EUR 7 Billion Recovery Plan

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Czech Republic's EUR 7 billion plan to recover from the pandemic and transform the…

3 years ago

Russia Prepares to Supply Europe with Hydrogen

Russia is ready to supply Europe with what it considers the energy of the future: hydrogen. According to media reports,…

3 years ago

Estonia Pursues Homegrown Technologies on Green Energy

On a global scale, Estonia does not emit high levels of greenhouse gasses, but on a per capita basis, it…

3 years ago

Hungary Threatens to Block EU’s Fit for 55 Climate Package

Reading Time: < 1 minute A government-funded thinktank wrote in an analysis that climate-related benefits of the package are small…

3 years ago

Road Ending for Fossil Fuel Cars in EU

It's looking like the end of the road for fossil fuel-burning cars (even hybrids) in Europe, according to the European…

3 years ago

The Baltics and “Fit for 55” Green Economies: Offshore Wind, Etc.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Countries in the Baltics are capitalizing on their natural asset - the sea itself - in…

3 years ago

Banks Will Have to Chip in to Reach EU Climate Goals

Reading Time: < 1 minute EU member states have to figure out how to involve banks in financing the climate…

3 years ago

EU Bans top 10 Single-use Plastic Products

Reading Time: 2 minutes The EU has come up with a list of single-use plastics that are banned from now,…

3 years ago

Visegrad Countries Discuss Recovery Plans in Warsaw

Meeting in Warsaw, finance ministers from the "Visegrad 4" (V4) country grouping - Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia - discussed…

3 years ago

Will the Czech Republic be “Fit for 55”?

The October elections in the Czech Republic could change the Czech government's approach towards the EU’s climate objectives, which is…

3 years ago