Greening the Economy in Germany and Hungary
EU Member States are facing the most severe financial and economic crisis in recent decades. With soaring energy prices, an often outdated energy infrastructure and ever increasing global greenhouse gas emission, Europe faces other significant problems. These challenges are intertwined in many ways.
News
2 Dec 2011
Where to hide Carbon dioxide?
According to the latest study of Energiaklub the role of the technologies for storing CO2 underground is ill-grounded in the combat against climate change. Even though the geological storage of Carbon dioxide is marked by several uncertainties, the method is receiving increasing attention in the course of international negotiations. The executive summary of the study below clearly summarizes the reasons why CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) does not seem to be a viable solution for Hungary.
8 Nov 2011
How do local governments get energy? (Conference report)
From agricultural waste through pellets to vine-branches, local governments have a wide range of options to satisfy their energy needs by making a transition to smart systems – saving millions annually by doing so. However, it is important what furnaces are fuelled with, where these materials come from and how the system is constructed. The topicality of biomass use and the energy management of local governments are reflected in the fact that almost a hundred participants were interested...
28 Oct 2011
Energy and publicity (conference, 17 November 2011.)
What can we know of energy issues? How and where is information on energy accessible? Which details concern the public and which are suppressed? What is published and how by the press? How is information leaked? How was the Fukushima accident presented by the Hungarian media?
Publications
Events
MORE EFFICIENT HOMES – MACRO ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Energiaklub has decided to fill an important gap and carry out the research necessary to confirm the much anticipated positive impacts of a massive energy efficiency program and the vital measures which support it. To this end Energiaklub’s Climate Policy Institute and our partners have assessed some of the significant macro-economic effects of the Hungarian state’s energy efficiency support scheme. We have looked at the employment generation potential of energy efficiency...
ENERGY AND INFORMATION
Energy has always been a sensitive area in relation to access to data of public interest. This is the area where business interests clash the most frequently with the public’s constitutional interest. The data requests of the Energiaklub Climate Policy Institute and Applied Communications have resulted in lawsuits where the data controller was evidently considered a body performing public function according to rules of law and judicial practice, and yet the data controller argued the...
Greening the Economy in Germany and Hungary
30 Jan 2012 - 9:00am - 31 Jan 2012 - 5:00pm
German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce
EU Member States are facing the most severe financial and economic crisis in recent decades. With soaring energy prices, an often...
Improving the Policy Framework for Renewable Heating in Hungary
20 Apr 2011 - 9:30am - 2:00pm
German-Hungarian Chamber for Industry and Commerce, 1024 Budapest, Lövőház u. 30.
The aim of the EU wide project RES-H Policy is to support EU member states in promoting renewable heating. The project...
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From best practice in Hungarian and international municipalities, to energy efficiency consultancy - through our project websites. + information / + opportunities / + Energy.
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