Poland vows to triple solar energy capacity this year
Warsaw, Poland – Poland’s Prime Minister has pledged to increase the country’s solar energy capacity three-fold in 2019. On Wednesday,Continue Reading
Tag: Environment
What are Poles and Hungarians most worried about?
Warsaw, Poland – An extensive international Ipsos poll, released last month, sheds some light on the most worrisome issues for citizensContinue Reading
Poland’s climate neutrality is ‘affordable and feasible’, says WWF
Warsaw, Poland – Poland’s path to climate neutrality and zero net emissions is both “affordable and feasible”, a new studyContinue Reading
Poland needs ‘between €700 and 900 billion’ to fund energy transition
Warsaw, Poland – Poland’s Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski claimed earlier this week that it was “a fantasy” to try to reachContinue Reading
Meet Cargonomia, the eco-friendly cooperative championing degrowth in Budapest
Budapest, Hungary – “Building your own furniture isn’t that complicated. There are plenty of participative workshops to learn how toContinue Reading
Climate change: Poland and France clash over Macron’s comments
Paris, France – Poland and France have crossed swords in recent days over comments made by the French President criticizingContinue Reading
Poland: Greenpeace activists detained after staging anti-coal protests
Warsaw, Poland – Activists from Greenpeace Poland have been arrested and detained for staging anti-coal protests. On Monday, Greenpeace’s RainbowContinue Reading
Warsaw buys fleet of electric buses in bid to tackle pollution
Warsaw, Poland – Warsaw municipal authorities announced earlier this week the purchase of 130 electric buses from local company SolarisContinue Reading
Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary torpedo EU climate goals
Brussels, Belgium – Poland, joined at the last minute by the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Estonia, blockedContinue Reading
Danube is most polluted river in Europe, shows new global study
Budapest, Hungary – A wide-ranging global study has identified the Danube as the river with the highest concentration of antibioticsContinue Reading
Poland and Slovakia failed to curb CO2 emissions last year
Warsaw, Poland – Although overall CO2 emissions decreased in the EU last year, many Central and Eastern European countries continueContinue Reading
Slovakia and Austria clash over nuclear energy
Bratislava, Slovakia – On Monday, Slovakia announced it would delay – once again – the long-awaited plans to expand theContinue Reading
The uncertain future of energy in Central Europe
Within the Visegrad Group – or V4 –, energy security is becoming increasingly complex, with individual countries taking different actionsContinue Reading
Hungary wins European Tree of the Year Award 2019
Pecs, Hungary – You’ve been anxiously waiting for it, and the results are in! The winner of this year’s EuropeanContinue Reading
Poland, Hungary and Slovakia among Europe’s worst recyclers
Brussels, Belgium – A report from the European Commission has scrutinized how EU member states recycle their waste, and theirContinue Reading
