Hungary's election of Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party in April brought hope for a renewed focus on environmental protection and climate targets.
It's already starting to bear fruit: the country established the Ministry for the Living Environment this month, putting environmental protection, nature conservation and animal welfare to the top of the agenda for the first time in 16 years.
"The Hungarian scientific community has welcomed with great enthusiasm the creation of a ministry responsible for the living environment," Hungarian physicist and world-renowned climate researcher Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, a professor at CEU, tells Euronews.
Restoring soil health and wetlands, changing agricultural practices and safeguarding forests are all issues that still await solutions. Ürge-Vorsatz, who also serves as vice-chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says while environmental experts are optimistic about the future, the success of any measures will also depend on ordinary people.
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