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New municipal housing agency, more green areas per capita, rejuvenation of rust zones, and decrease in the number of fatal traffic accidents. These are some of the highlights of the recently unveiled Budapest Development strategy until 2027.

For the first time they will be made locally of degradable and recyclable materials
As cities around the world bemoan their “different Christmas’’ this year due to the Covid-19 restrictions, Budapest is putting its money where its mouth is, even while decorating streets for the winter holidays. Prioritizing environmental protection, Budapesti Dísz- és Közvilágítási Kft (BDK), a company co-owned by Budapest Municipality and energy supplier Budapesti Elektromos Művek Nyrt, will brighten the public spaces of the Hungarian capital with new, eco-friendly decorations from the first Sunday of Advent, 29 November.

The European Circular Cities Declaration is designed to help accelerate the transition from a linear to a circular economy in Europe, and thereby create a resource-efficient, low-carbon and socially responsible society.

The mayors of Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Bratislava asked the EU to set more ambitious climate targets

Free Cities Pact was signed yesterday by the mayors of four European capitals at the Central European University in Budapest. The Mayors of Prague, Budapest, Warsaw and Bratislava confirmed that they will be working together and promoting joint projects. Furthermore, the Pact binds them in the commitment to the values ​​of democracy, freedom, human dignity and the rule of law, as enshrined in the EU Treaties.
Mayors Zdeněk Hřib (Prague), Karácsony Gergely (Budapest), Rafał Trzaskowski (Warsaw) and Matúš Vallo (Bratislava) agreed that the Free Cities Pact will be an open platform for other cities and third parties that share the same values. The four cities want to join forces in tackling common challenges, including climate change, the housing crisis or the use of European subsidies.

City of Budapest, led by Lord Mayor Gergely Karácsony, started The participation budget, a new, wonderful initiative where anyone in Budapest can submit an idea regarding ​​what they would change and improve in their living environment, or even in matters affecting the whole City. In the test year 2020, the Metropolitan Municipality allocated HUF 1 …

Two bus storages with solar panels installed on their roof structure were handed over in the Kelenföld Division of the Budapest Transport Privately Held Corporation (BKV) last Friday. While far from being a sensation, the event proved yet another step in the implementation of BKV's climate and energy strategy towards achieving a greener, more liveable Budapest.
Green island with a twofold purpose
The location of the project is not only practical, but also symbolic, as Kelenföld is home to BKV’s zero-emission, purely electric buses. With the latest energy-conscious investment of Budapest’s main public transport operator, the company’s bus garage in Kelenföld has become a “green island” that not only provides electric buses to the travelling public, but also generates some of their electricity needs from renewable energy sources by replacing fossil fuels.

The new Green mayor of Budapest on Tuesday (5 November) added his city to the growing list of capitals to have declared climate emergencies. It is the first visible break with Viktor Orbán’s government, which still opposes an EU plan to go climate-neutral by 2050.