Orban: Govt to implement climate strategy 'calmly, systematically'

Prime Minister Viktor Orban told an international news conference that the government's national energy and climate protection strategy strove to maintain the "common life of Hungarians" in the Carpathian Basin while adapting to climate change calmly and systematically. The plan is to gradually achieve 90 percent carbon-neutral electricity by 2030, with the Paks nuclear power plant providing the bulk of generation and solar most of the rest, he said. Hungary, he added, belonged to a group of countries that aimed for a climate-neutral economy by 2050, but this, he said, would cost 50,000 billion forints (EUR 152bn) to achieve. Hungary is one of 21 countries have managed major economic growth while reducing carbon dioxide emissions, he said.