November 11, 2016
It’s vital for local urban sustainability initiatives to build connections with local municipalities and with each other concluded the Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS) project’s Budapest team, which was led by CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences. The EU Commission-funded project started in 2014, and its regional Budapest phase ended with a meeting on October 28 at CEU.
November 2, 2016
CEU’s Diana Urge-Vorsatz, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy, was member of a 5-member delegation of UNEP’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that met Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on October 23. As its vice chair, Urge-Vorsatz represented Working Group III of IPCC on the meeting.
June 30, 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Forum has emerged as a major international conference where policies and ideas are shared between governments, business, civil society and academia.
May 20, 2016
Professor Aleh Cherp of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at CEU dispels a popular misconception that it was Fukushima’s nuclear disaster that forced Japan to develop renewable energy in a recent letter entitled Energy policy: Renewables targeted before Fukushima, published in scientific journal Nature.

