Environmental and Energy Studies

Professor Pinter took part as a panel discussant at the side event 'How Countries Can Monitor Sustainable Development Goals' at the UN, organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation and hosted by the Governments of Hungary and Viet Nam.

For more information see: 

http://sd.iisd.org/news/governments-experts-call-for-using-existing-mechanisms-in-sdg-implementation/

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) professionals from all over the world have gathered at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest this week for a joint ISEPEI and UNDP "Innovations in Disaster Risk Management" workshop. Rastislav Vrbensky, the Director of the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub for Europe and the CIS opened the workshop on Monday July 13th along with Margaret Bolter of CEU and course directors Viktor Lagutov (CEU) and Armen Grigoryan (UNDP).

Water practitioners, academics, and decision-makers from Iran, Jamaica, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, and beyond are convening at CEU in Budapest for the ISEPEI "Making Information Talk and Technologies Work for Water Security" workshop this week, July 6-10. Run in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and with support from the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), this workshop features faculty from leading UN agencies, global environmental institutions, and the ICT industry, including UNEP, the Black Sea Commission, and Google.

SABUKO, a conservation NGO working in Georgia, is looking for motivated people
who want to help solving a key conservation problem in the Batumi Bottleneck through understanding the effect of illegal shooting of raptors, and changing the attitudes
towards birds of prey in a non-confrontative way.

As the world is preparing to finalize and in September adopt a new global development agenda for the 2015-2030 time period, including a set of global Sustainable Development Goals, questions are being raised about what have countries achieved under the Millennium Development Goals.

For the first time in Europe, Dr. Dean Djokic, Esri Water Expert and the lead Arc Hydro developer, is providing a 3-day instructor-led GIS Water commercial training course (Esri Arc Hydro) at Central European University in Budapest July 1-3, 2015.

Diane Matar (PhD Candidate, year 4) publishes a case-study on Resilient people, resilient nature: Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Lebanon in the first international e-book on Protected Areas Governance and Management. The case-study presents and discusses efforts in Lebanese Biosphere Reserves - Jabal Moussa and Shouf - to meet the international standards of management and evaluation.