Water

Nature-Based Water Management Delivers Ecological and Economic Benefits in Hungarian Catchments

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The LIFE LOGOS 4 WATERS project demonstrates how integrated, ecosystem-based water management can improve the climate adaptation capacity of local municipalities by addressing negative water balance challenges in two Hungarian catchments. Within the project, experts of Greenformation delivered the assessment of impacted ecosystem services and the project’s economic impacts. Building on the baseline socio-economic and…

From growth to care: ecological economics and the care economy in Budapest

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Ecological economists from across Hungary gathered at Corvinus University of Budapest on 27 April for an inspiring afternoon workshop and Tim Jackson’s public lecture on his latest book, The Care Economy. The event was organised by the Research Center for Ecological Economics at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS), Corvinus University of Budapest, which hosted both the…

Fast renewables, strong nature laws: what Austria, Denmark and Germany can teach the EU

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In the rush to scale up renewables and grids, the EU is testing how far it can stretch nature protection without breaking it. New initiatives like the Environmental Omnibus and Grids Package promise to turn decarbonisation into a competitiveness booster, yet they risk diluting biodiversity safeguards and fuelling polarisation between “green growth” and “green protection”.…

DAISY in Budapest: walking the Degrowth Doughnut

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DAISY’s second consortium meeting brought 18 partners from Hungary, Germany, Greece, the UK and the Netherlands to Budapest from 24–26 March 2026, combining intensive work sessions with an urban field trip through one of the inner district of Budapest. Based at Impact Hub Budapest, researchers from different fields took stock of DAISY’s progress so far,…

Co-creating urban nature futures: Co-Bio at the “Adaptation? Naturally!” Conference

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On 6 February 2026, GreenFormation presented the Co-Bio project at the “Adaptation? Naturally!” UPSURGE final conference. The event provided a valuable platform for knowledge sharing and networking among international and directly EU-funded projects, featuring Hungarian case studies on nature-based solutions. GreenFormation contributed with a short Co-Bio introduction as part of the morning mini-presentations, and then…