In its capacity as the current holder of the Presidency, Hungary represented the European Union at the second Clean Energy Ministerial Conference organised in the United Arab Emirates on 6-7 April 2011. On behalf of the rotating Presidency of the European Union, Tamás Iván Kovács, Deputy State Secretary for EU and International Relations of the Hungarian Ministry of National Development, also took the floor.

Mr Kovács reported that EUR 120 million was allocated by the European Union twice for separately financing climate change and sustainable development in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. He pointed out that, within its financial means, Hungary is committed to the spread of renewable resources, the provision of incentives to emission reduction and improvement in energy efficiency.

The participants of the conference, which was also the very first general meeting of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) established by the largest countries of the world, discussed the situation in North Africa and nuclear safety in the context of the Fukushima disaster. Eleven motions were made at the conference, among others, in the field of solar, biological, wind, clean coal, sustainable water energy, electrical cars, and the public financing of energy efficiency and clean energy.

(Ministry of National Development , Department of Communication)