Hungary

Climate and nature protection plan; energy policy strategy

Executive

Passed in 2020

On June 4th, 2020, the parliament passed a resolution on "non-deferred tasks arising from climate change". This resolution approves the governmental climate and nature protection plan and related energy policy strategies. This plan and related documents aim at mitigating and adapting to climate change, upgrade the country's energy systems, enhance energy efficiency and decarbonise electricity generation.

The document sets a 92 million euro fund to be granted to small and medium companies switching to energy production from renewable sources. It sets goals of solar capacity deployment, low carbon electricity production, number of electric buses, and encourages the uptake of electric vehicles.

Documents

Link to protection plan (PDF) (Hungarian)

Climate targets in this law

2 targets

Increase the capacity of solar plants by six

Energy | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2020
90 % of electricity supply to be zero carbon by 2030

Energy | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2020