![]() ![]() Most of its activities revolve around a regular podcast, publication of books, and youth events to raise awareness on climate issues. The board of the Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation includes one cabinet minister and a state secretary, so critics say it would be hard to argue it functions independently of the government.ĭespite the largesse, Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation has not exhibited any particular waste management expertise other than launching an app to detect illegal waste (downloaded by 6,600 people) and collecting PET bottles from the river Tisza. ![]() In 2020, the Blue Planet Venture Capital Fund was set up and received 5 billion forints (12.5 million euros) from the government over the subsequent two years, and another 5 billion forints in the months before Janos Ader stepped down as president of the country.īy comparison, the biggest civil environmental organisation, the National Society of Conservationists, comprising 100 member groups, receives a yearly state support of just 6 million forints (15,000 euros). Since the Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation was established in 2016, it has been generously supported with public money. While he has displayed an interest in environmental issues, especially water conservation, he never took to task the not-notably climate friendly Orban government for its ecological failures during his tenure. He was a founding member of the ruling Fidesz party, and was also an MEP between 20. North Macedonia’s Environment Ministry did not respond to BIRN’s request for comment on the tender.Īder served as president of Hungary until May this year. The project is expected to last for two years. It has promised to pay particular attention to finding solutions that are sustainable over the long term. ![]() The foundation will also assist the government in Skopje with preparing the IT background for waste management activities and launching public procurement. The Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation will function as project manager, and the work itself will be managed by Hungarians, though experts from various European countries will be involved, the statement said. The waste management program will be implemented within the framework of the country’s preparation for EU accession, the so-called Twinning cooperation, an instrument which brings together public sector expertise from EU member states and beneficiary countries to achieve concrete results. Ader’s Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation, established in 2016 in order to raise awareness about climate change, and to find and promote solutions for a sustainable future, has been generously financed by the Fidesz government over the years to the tune of several million euros.Īccording to Laszlo Sitanyi, director of the Blue Planet Climate Protection Foundation, the 1-million-euro tender won by his organisation will be funded by the EU and its task will be to present “European best practices” to the government in Skopje, and help create and implement the system which would best suit the country. Government critics in Hungary point out the irony that the tender was won by an organisation with precious little experience of waste management and a founder who only paid lip service to environmental issues in Hungary during his ten-year stint as president. ![]() EPA-EFE/NOEMI BRUZAKĪn environmental foundation set up by the former Hungarian president Janos Ader, a loyal ally of the nationalist-populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said it has won a 1-million-euro EU project to help develop waste management practices in North Macedonia. President of Hungary Janos Ader delivers his speech during a high-level debate of the UN General Assembly on climate change and sustainable development in the organisation’s headquarters in New York, USA, 28 March 2019. ![]()
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