News / Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

U.S. Ambassador Colleen Bell Opens Climate Change Lecture

February 9, 2015

U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell opened a climate change event at CEU Feb. 2, introducing Andrew Gillespie of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Gillespie said science backs up the fact that humans have adversely affected the climate and that the changes are happening at a rapid and alarming pace.

Healthy Forests Critical to Mitigating Climate Change, Says Gillespie

February 6, 2015

Science backs up the fact that humans have adversely affected the climate and that the changes are happening at a rapid and alarming pace. Dr. Andrew Gillespie of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spoke at CEU on "Climate Change and its impact on Forests in Europe and North America," at a Feb. 2 lecture, co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy of Budapest.

Gillespie on Climate Change

February 5, 2015

http://www.metropol.hu/mellekletek/metropolzold/cikk/1281844 - Hungarian news portal metropol.hu interviewed Andrew Gillespie, Associate Director at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, in connection with his public lecture delivered at CEU on February 2 entitled ”Climate Change and its Impact on Forests in Europe and North America.” CEU President and Rector John Shattuck gave opening remarks, while U.S.

U.S. Department of State Signs Grant Agreement with CEU to Support Hungarian Sustainable University Network

February 3, 2015

http://www.edupress.hu/hirek/index.php?HirID=32309&pid=egycikk - Hungarian educational news portal edupress.hu reports: In line with CEU’s strategic sustainability goals, the U.S.

Cherp Discusses the First 10 Years of MESPOM

January 27, 2015

MESPOM, a European Commission-supported Erasmus Mundus Masters program in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management operated by CEU, three other leading European universities and two North American universities, turns 10 years old this year. Aleh Cherp, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and MESPOM Consortium coordinator recalls how MESPOM started out 10 years ago as one of the first Erasmus Mundus (EM) Masters programs.

Margarita Balmaceda on Energy and State-Building

January 26, 2015

Video of Margarita Balmaceda on Energy and State-Building

Urge-Vorsatz Listed Among Top 50 Most Successful Hungarian Women

January 24, 2015

Hungarian women’s magazine’s special edition, Sikeres Nok Top 50, lists Professor Diana Urge-Vorsatz from CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in the top 50 list of the most successful Hungarians. She has been teaching at CEU since 1996, and is an active member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in 2007 shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Albert Arnold Gore Jr. In 2008 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in the Hungarian Parliament. She is the mother of seven children.

CEU Alumnus Behind Ruin Bar Szimpla Kert Starts New Venture

January 19, 2015

http://hvg.hu/enesacegem/20150119_ne_hidd_hogy_kicsit_is_latom_a_jovot - Hungarian news portal hvg.hu reports: Gabor Bertenyi (ENVS ‘08), one of the members of the team setting up Budapest’s first and best-known ruin bar Szimpla Kert, started a news business called “Házikó.” The venture focuses on delivering high-quality sandwiches from local farmers.

Urge-Vorsatz on Greenhouse Gas Emission in Hungary

January 8, 2015

http://vs.hu/versus/mire-lesz-jo-ha-zold-a-koztarsasagi-elnok/urge-vorsatz-diana-tragedia-a-zoldombudsman-hivatalanak-felszamolasa-0108 - Hungarian news portal vs.hu reports: According to Diane Urge-Vorsatz, professor in CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, director of CEU’s Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) and coordinating lead author in the U.N.

Pinter Heads IMPRESSIONS Project in Hungary

December 14, 2014

http://www.greenfo.hu/hirek/2014/12/14/szekszard-is-reszese-az-eu-legatfogobb-klimakutatasanak - During the week of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru, international climate change experts visited Hungary, to introduce the newest climate change research project of the EU.