On the 21st February 2020, our final climate frontier workshop in Bucharest again brought together a strong mix of experts from government, industry, non-governmental organisations and analytical centres in Romania and Bulgaria to assess the opportunities and challenges for adopting best climate policy practices in the transport and buildings sectors.
On 4th of February this year WiseEuropa organized a debate: Emergence of new states in Eastern Europe after the First World War and the Entente powers: Lessons for Europe, which took place in European Parliament in Brussels. The aim of the debate was to answer two main questions.
On the 7th February 2020, our second workshop in Warsaw brought together experts from government, industry, non-governmental organisations and analytical centres in the Visegrád (V4) Group - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary - to assess the challenges and opportunities for adopting best climate policy practices in the transport and buildings sectors.
The period of 1918-1921 serves as a key point of reference not only for nations who fought for their independence but this legacy has a wider European context.
As part of the preparation of the report, all forms of public subsidies used by the Polish energy sector were examined. In total, several mechanisms consume over PLN 7 billion a year from the state budget and the pockets of energy consumers.
We are pleased to announce that WiseEuropa was admitted at the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its twenty-fifth session to the UNFCCC process as an observer organization.
WiseEuropa participated in the #EngageEU project, which lasted from september 2018 until september 2019, as one of the four partners coming from: Germany (the Institut für Europäische Politik), France (Centre international de formation européenne), Brussels (the Europe-wide Trans European Policy Studies Association) and Poland (WiseEuropa). The project was co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union.
Sustainable finance taxonomy and national climate strategies can often work to complement each other by bringing national contexts to provisions outlined in a classification system.
The event is organized within a framework of the project “Landscape of Climate Finance: Promoting debate on climate finance flows in Central Europe” that is implemented by WiseEuropa together with I4CE and the NewClimate Institute.
