Ader: Effects of climate change hit Carpathian Basin early, hard (adds details, minister)

The effects of climate change have emerged earlier and in a harsher form in the Carpathian Basin than in several other regions in Europe, President Janos Ader said on Monday at a conference. The aim of the First National Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference on Climate Change, held online due to the coronavirus pandemic, was to discuss those effects in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin, to assess the knowledge accumulated over the past years and to start working on a national report on climate change, to be published in 2023, Ader said. The report will attempt to provide clear answers to issues such as climate threats and emission trends, adaptation and mitigation opportunities as well as the economic, regulatory and budgetary aspects of climate change, Ader said.