Hungary s coal exit and London s first tiny forest : The Sustainability Success Stories of the week
As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
Published every week, this series charts how businesses and sustainability professionals are working to achieve their Mission Possible across the campaign s five key pillars -
energy, resources, infrastructure, mobility and
business leadership.
In a week where UK headlines were dominated by International Women s Day, projects and initiatives which empower businesses to play their part in achieving a sustainable future, today, continued to launch and scale-up.
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10 March 2021
Hungary has become the seventh EU country to plan a coal phase-out by 2025, and the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phase-out plan after announcing it will bring forward the closure of its last coal generator and partially replace it with a solar farm.
Hungary’s Secretary of State for the Development of Circular Economy, Energy and Climate Policy, Attila Steiner, announced at a meeting of the Powering Past Coal Alliance last week that Hungary would bring forward its coal phase-out plan by five years, from 2030 to 2025.
The Hungarian President, János Áder, originally announced at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019 that Hungary would phase out all coal-fired electricity generation by 2030, where he announced plans to increase its solar power capacity ten times by 2030.
05 March 2021
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Hungary is now the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phaseout plan, announcing that it will shut its last remaining coal plant in 2025. Meanwhile Poland says its first nuclear power unit will be built in Gdansk and the second one probably at the site of its Belchatów coal plant.
Poland might build a nuclear unit at the Belchatów coal plant site (Image: Wikipedia)
Hungarian President János Áder announced the country’s original plan to exit coal by 2030 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in September 2019. He said Hungary would simultaneously increase its solar power capacity ten times and expand the capacity of its nuclear power plants. These efforts would mean that 90% of Hungary’s electricity production will be carbon-free within a decade, he said.
Ungaria Vrea Să închidă Toate Termocentralele Pe Cărbune în 2025 România Nu Are Planuri Oficiale Pentru închidere, Dar Acestea Au Probleme Economice Mari libertatea.ro - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from libertatea.ro Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.