Hungary was among the first countries to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement and has taken measures to ensure that the country will achieve climate neutrality by 2050, President János Áder said in an environmental debate held in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
Concerning the Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, Ader said that “after six years we are further away from the targets than we were at the time of their adoption … we must complete what we agreed on”. He said that countries referring to themselves as “climate champions”, including a number of European countries, had even increased rather than cut their emissions, and warned that unless current tendencies are reversed, emissions of hazardous substances may not decrease but increase by 60 percent by 2030 compared to the amounts measured in 1990.
“Can we preserve our constructed world as we see it or will we destroy it instead?”
the president asked.
Referring to the measures Hungary has taken, Áder said that the country had reduced its emissions by 32 percent compared to 1990, adding that coal would soon be phased out from the country’s energy production. It has been decided that Hungary would double its solar energy capacities each year, and all new buses in public transport would be electric from 2030 on.
Referring to the measures Hungary has taken, Áder said that the country had reduced its emissions by 32 percent compared to 1990, adding that coal would soon be phased out from the country’s energy production. It has been decided that Hungary would double its solar energy capacities each year, and all new buses in public transport would be electric from 2030 on.
Hungary has doubled its forest areas in the past 100 years
and is planning to further increase its woodlands, Áder said. Hungary, in cooperation with neighbouring countries, has developed one million hectares of bio-reserves, the president added.
Áder warned that the number of natural disasters had increased five-fold in the past 50 years and the total damage doubled. Such disasters occurring in succession could lead to economic and political crises, he said. “
We are destroying our own life,
the current way of life putting our own future and living conditions in jeopardy. We should recognise that climate protection is not about nature, which will adapt and regenerate. The question is us and our own future,” he said.
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Source: MTI
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This is according to the European Green Deal, is it not? The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels is also one of the goals. Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will have to undertake a massive transformation that will be costly. Curious as to our route map!
2050 is a long way away…..too long. Why can’t Hungary achieve this by 2035 or 2040? You must set aggressive targets in order to achieve desirable goals.The planet is at a crisis point!!!!!!
They say we have 11 years until global warming reaches 1.5 degrees, thus marking the point of no return. At the moment it’s 1.2 degrees.