Center for Environmental Studies

Budapest, Hungary

The Center for Environmental Studies (CES) was founded in 1993 as an independent, private non-profit think tank organization. Its mission is to serve as a catalytic institution for the environmentally sustainable restructuring of Hungary. 

CES:

• conducts research (evaluations of the sustainability of development, analysis of the natural, social, political, conditions of sustainable development, etc.),

• gives technical assistance (advises on environmental policy, environmental management issues, helps to prepare environmental proposals and find collaborating partners, etc.),

• organizes conferences, workshops, seminars and meetings,

• provides education, raises awareness on various environmental and sustainability issues (organizes training courses, prepares publications, makes presentations etc).

A major focus of its programme is urban and regional sustainable development, including issues of urban sprawl, urban transport, municipal energy management, brownfields, sustainable development strategies, local environmental programmes and municipal EMS.