István Bart

Climate policy expert, town and country planner.  With a background in law, he has been working in climate policy since 2002. He worked in Hungary's Ministry of Economy and Finance. He was also an official in the Directorate General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) at the European Commission, where he worked on the implementation of the EU's Emissions Trading System. After 2011, he was the first director of the Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute (MEHI). He also worked as a senior climate policy consultant at Klimapolitika Ltd.  In 2018, he established the Climate Strategy 2050 Institute, where he is still active as the managing director. He is also a Director at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he works on decarbonising aviation. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Equilibrium Institute. He regularly publishes writings and gives interviews on current climate policy matters.