Environment

Initiatives

Mad cow, bird flu: veterinary response is improving

Top agency for safety in the meat and livestock trade says: the response to mad-cow disease and H5N1 bird flu...

Initiatives

Human rights ‘eroded worldwide’

Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty International...

Recycling

Budapest firm starts energy-reed farm

Nád MPS-H Kft, a Budapest-based bioenergy research firm, will set up what will become Europe's largest facility growing energy efficient...

Recycling

Toyota to build 16,000 cars at Russian plant in 2008

Toyota's St. Petersburg plant, scheduled to open in December 2007, will assemble about 16,000 automobiles in 2008, the company's spokesman...

Initiatives

Hungarian Government to sell AKA stake

The government will sell the 40% stake it has in Alföld Concession Motorway Zrt (AKA), the company operating motorway M5....

Recycling

DHL to open new logistics base in Hungary

Courier services provider DHL Expressz Magyarország Kft will launch the construction of a logistics base near the Fly Balaton airport...

Recycling

Bio-diesel production to start in Visonta, Hungary

The new bio-diesel plant in Visonta (North-East Hungary), scheduled to start production in October, will supply 30%-35% of Hungary's annual...

Recycling

Suzuki to expand Hungarian unit in Esztergom

Suzuki plans to invest Ft 50 billion ($268.37 million) at its factory in Esztergom, northern Hungary....

Initiatives

Romania, unable to co-finance European projects

Romania's financial capacity of ensuring the grant for the co-financing of European projects is not sufficient, Aurel Saramet, head of...

Recycling

US group to build $30 bln steel plant in Vietnam

US group Eminence plans to pour $30 billion into building a steel plant and auxiliary establishments in Vietnam's central region,...

Initiatives

WildHorse raises $20 mln for uranium projects

Australian uranium explorer WildHorse Energy Ltd has raised $20 million through a placement of convertible notes, with global investment bank...

Recycling

Japan’s Cosmo Oil to build fertilizer plants in China, Europe

Cosmo Oil Co. plans to construct liquid fertilizer plants in China's Shaanxi Province and Slovakia by 2009 in a bid...

Recycling

Russian Agricultural Bank issues $1.25 billion worth of Eurobonds

Russian Agricultural Bank has placed a $1.25 billion Eurobond issue, the state-owned bank's board chairman said Friday....

Initiatives

FinMin on property tax, forint band, housing subsidies

Finance Minister János Veres yesterday said the government has no plans to change the existing housing subsidy regime, to drop...

Initiatives

Kóka on micro-credits

According to the Economy Minister János Kóka, the micro-credit scheme must be made more popular and more easily accessible as...

Pollution

Dongwha Plant’s Environmental Permit Revoked in Hungary

The environmental permit for South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte manufacturing and NMP recycling plant in Sóskút has been revoked following an...

Environment

Hungary Introduces Water Restrictions in 629 Settlements

In response to the extreme heat and drought in Hungary, first-degree water restrictions have been introduced in 465 settlements, according...

Recycling

Alteo Starts Trial Run at New DRS Waste Processing Plant

Alteo Group will significantly increase its processing capacity for returned beverage packaging from this summer, with the launch of trial...

Environment, Business, Initiatives

BCSDH Breakfast Links Sustainability Award to Promoting Scalable Business Change

The Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary used its Sustainable Future Inspiration Breakfast on May 6 to shift the...

Environment

Meet the Hungarian Professor Working to Restore the Danube

Research professor Tibor Erős talks to the BBJ about his career as a biologist and ecologist, detailing his passion for...

Environment

Questions Arise About Toxic Exposure at Samsung Göd, Company Denies Media Reports

In 2023, Hungary’s government secretly ordered the Constitution Protection Office, the National Information Center, and intelligence agencies to investigate the...

Pollution

Air Quality Deteriorating in Several Parts of Hungary

A high concentration of airborne dust particles is further deteriorating air quality in several parts of Hungary, the National Public...

Initiatives

Gov’t Calls Tender to Support Creation of Wetland Habitats

The gov't is calling a HUF 12.8 billion tender to support the development of natural wetland habitats, contributing to long-term...

Dongwha Plant’s Environmental Permit Revoked in Hungary

The environmental permit for South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte manufacturing and NMP recycling plant in Sóskút has been revoked following an...

CATL Hungary Fined HUF 10 mln Over Environmental Permit Violations

The Debrecen plant of Chinese battery maker CATL violated several provisions of its environmental use permit and was fined HUF...

Hungary Introduces Water Restrictions in 629 Settlements

In response to the extreme heat and drought in Hungary, first-degree water restrictions have been introduced in 465 settlements, according...

Hungary Reviews Battery Plants’ Emissions, Water Use and Waste Management

A nationwide inspection program covering the full operating chain of Hungary’s battery industry began Aug. 1, Minister of the Living...

Alteo Starts Trial Run at New DRS Waste Processing Plant

Alteo Group will significantly increase its processing capacity for returned beverage packaging from this summer, with the launch of trial...

Budapest Water Supply ‘Stable’ Amid Heatwave

The water supply of Budapest is "stable", the city is in a position to help out settlements around the capital...

Budapest Proposes Tiered Water‑fee System to Cut Waste

Budapest is calling for a reform of Hungary’s water-pricing system, proposing free basic household consumption and progressively higher rates for...

Hungarian Environmental Protection Authority Initiates Proceedings Against CATL

The environmental protection authority has initiated proceedings against Chinese-owned CATL as the company illegally discharged green-colored liquid from a sewer...

BCSDH Breakfast Links Sustainability Award to Promoting Scalable Business Change

The Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary used its Sustainable Future Inspiration Breakfast on May 6 to shift the...

Meet the Hungarian Professor Working to Restore the Danube

Research professor Tibor Erős talks to the BBJ about his career as a biologist and ecologist, detailing his passion for...

Questions Arise About Toxic Exposure at Samsung Göd, Company Denies Media Reports

In 2023, Hungary’s government secretly ordered the Constitution Protection Office, the National Information Center, and intelligence agencies to investigate the...

Hungary DRS manages More Than 3 bln Returns in 2025

Hungary's deposit-return system (DRS) managed the return of over 3 billion bottles and cans in 2025, Mohu, a unit of...

Air Quality Deteriorating in Several Parts of Hungary

A high concentration of airborne dust particles is further deteriorating air quality in several parts of Hungary, the National Public...

Gov’t Calls Tender to Support Creation of Wetland Habitats

The gov't is calling a HUF 12.8 billion tender to support the development of natural wetland habitats, contributing to long-term...

Mohu’s Recycling Success Met With Bitter Irony by Large Retail Partners

Hungary’s deposit return system (DRS) on beverage packaging is an “internationally recognized” success, according to Mohu, the monopoly operator, but...