Getting to net zero in the Visegrád countries

On Thursday, 27th January at 10:00 CET, the Climate Recon 2050 Platform hosted an online event with national climate policy experts, discussing the insights from a report on the national LTSs from the four Visegrád countries.

Experts at WiseEuropa have compared the long-term strategies in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia using a methodology developed inside Climate Recon 2050. The results were presented as an impulse to discuss the different experiences and help identify ways to learn and improve – and move towards implementation.

Joining us to speak to their respective national context for the long-term strategies were:

• Michal Danhelka, Ministry for the Environment, Czech Republic
• Stelios Grafakos, Global Green Growth Institute, Hungary
• Krzysztof Kobyłka, WiseEuropa, Poland
• Kateřina Chajdiaková, Climate Initiative, Slovakia

Recording:
You can find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQp0tEKr_qQ

Background:

At COP26 in Glasgow, the international community highlighted the importance of long-term climate strategies (LTSs) and requested that all Parties submit theirs by 2022 (and update them regularly). In the EU, all Member States are legally obliged to produce national long-term strategies. However, the strategies have differed significantly in terms of their drafting process, final results as well as timing.

Climate Recon 2050 has developed an evaluation matrix to allow for a comparison of these divergent strategies. The analysis of the Visegrád 4 countries is the first in a series of regional comparisons to be published by the end of 2022.

This event presented analysis that compares contents and process of the national LTSs for the Visegrád 4 countries. It invited reactions from the countries concerned and asked for updates on the next steps.