The team of GreenFormation wishes you a pleasant, joyful and relaxing Christmas break. See you in 2025 with kicking off our three Horizon projects. In the meantime, if you are dreaming of a white Christmas with a splash of green, discover what you can do for biodiversity during this holiday season! Choose Sustainable Decorations: Dig…
GreenFormation is part of three consortia of three successful Horizon Europe projects. We are very much looking forward to working within these international partnerships, striving to enhance nature and society. Our DAISY project aims to understand how interventions (innovations, regulations, financial incentives, and tools affecting social norms and emotions) and their mixes can drive systemic…
GreenFormation joined the initiative of Cap and Share aiming to economic and climate justice. The concept has three core principles – Cap, Charge & Share A binding ‘Cap’ on fossil fuel extraction, mitigating the main cause of the climate crisis and keeping us within planetary boundaries; A ‘polluter pays’ principle, with a ‘Charge’ levied on all…
GreenFormation Kft., together with Transition Wekerle civil organisation, Kiserdő Egyesület, and volunteers, organised a successful event within the framework of the Co-Bio project’s local case study. We launched a program series called “Wekerle, természetesen!” (Wekerle, naturally!) that aims to provide useful information and practical ideas to Wekerletelep residents, supporting them in taking nature-friendly steps to…
In the framework of the Co-Bio project, GreenFormation is implementing a local case study in Budapest, aiming to support urban biodiversity. The case study is located in the XIX district in Budapest, called “Wekerletelep” (Wekerle estate), a unique garden suburb with many green areas. We are working in cooperation with local organisations -the Transition Wekerle…
GreenFormation experts joined those professionals working in Hungarian climate science and related fields, who urged the following ten messages to be considered and related necessary actions to be implemented: We have to face the problems. The negative effects of climate change can already be felt and will worsen. Instead of adapting or reducing emissions, adapt…
GreenFormation signed a cooperation agreement with the Municipality of Budapest to enhance their joint efforts in biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, and mitigation. Budapest joined the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, aiming for cities to become carbon-neutral by 2030 showing leading examples to other settlements to follow by 2050. For this, Mission cities plan…
The Degrowth Doughnut model is based on the original Doughnut visualisation of ecological boundaries and social foundations. (You can read more about these models in our previous article here.) The Budapest Degrowth Doughnut was formulated in a participatory way during an expert-workshop series in spring, 2024. The process was combined with intense bilateral consultations with…
GreenFormation has joined the international degrowth network (IDN), which consists of organisations, activists, researchers, practitioners, educators, and artists dedicated to structuring and energising social and environmental groups and organisations throughout the world that share a similar understanding of growth-dependent economic systems. We focus on fostering pluriversal, democratic, inclusive, and effective coordination among these groups and…
The Co-Bio (Co-creating Biodiversity in Urban Areas) project had its Train-the-Trainers event in Athens last month, which equipped partners with the necessary co-creation methods, mindset, tools, and insights for urban biodiversity enhancement to act as effective facilitators in their national case development process. During the event, we shared our project-related experiences, dilemmas, and methods, while…