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05-06/6/2024

ESDN Conference

10/5

10/5/2024

NFFT Board Meeting

26/3

26-27/3/2024

ESDN workshop, Montenegro

13/3

13/3/2024

NFFT Board Meeting

Human

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Every generation needs human resources: knowledgeable and skilful individuals in appropriate quantity and in good health. Society cannot afford to lose the skills of the disadvantaged groups. Although there is no relevant statistical data, economic value of the human capital likely exceeded that of the material capital around the turn of the millennium, rendering humans the most important resources of the nation.

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NFFT’s Professional Coordination Working Committee holds second online workshop session

On 4 March, NFFT’s Professional Coordination Working Committee held its second online workshop in 2021 to discuss the fifth National Environmental Programme (NKP) and the National Nature Conservation Plan (NTA). Keynote speeches were delivered by Tibor Zoltán László, deputy minister of state for environmental affairs (Ministry of Agriculture) and Bertalan Balczó, deputy minister of state for nature conservation (Ministry of Agriculture).

The 2021-2026 NKP has been designed to define Hungary’s environmental goals as well as the actions and instruments, resources needed to achieve such goals. In his speech, Tibor László talked about the results of the programme including the growing rate of households connected to water supply networks and waste water collecting networks, the rise in the number of settlements complying with the drinking water directives, the increasing rate of agricultural land used for ecological farming and the improvement of waste management. However, the deputy minister of state for environmental affairs stressed that there are many challenges remaining to tackle in the field of sustainable production and consumption patterns, waste generation, GHG emissions, sustainable innovation and approach as well as the protection of natural resources. To address such challenges, the programme includes comprehensive, strategic and horizontal objectives.

In his keynote address, Bertalan Balczó spoke about many external and internal challenges that will lead to the loss of our natural resources if the appropriate responses fail to be provided.

Hungary is also seriously challenged by a number of global processes such as climate change, the spread of invasive species, intensifying land use, the degradation of natural habitats and illegal land use. The assessment of the state of nature revealed the following trends: the rate of species with stable or improving status is high (61%) while habitats reflect declining tendencies (51%). One of the unresolved problems is wildlife overpopulation and the high rate of non-native fish species (30% of a fish fauna with 90 species are non-native species). As these problems are complex social and economic issues, actions only in the field of nature conservation cannot sufficiently remove them. Key priorities for the 2021-2026 timeframe include the protection of biodiversity, the prevention of further degradation of ecosystem services, the improvement of domestic green infrastructure, mapping, assessment of ecosystems and their services, habitat restoration and the reduction of invasive species.

Natural

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Ecosystem services provided by natural resources are direct and indirect benefits for society, produced by natural and human-regulated ecosystems. Amongst the benefits are provisioning services (food, animal feed, raw material), natural cycle regulating services (climate stabilization, pollination, flood control), supporting services (nutrient cycling, soil formation), and cultural services (recreation, education, art inspiration).

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Economic

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The basis of a society’s material growth is economic resources: physical capital, financial capital as storage and transmitter of value, technological knowledge in the form of intellectual property and know-how, and built environment. Entrepreneurs become the cornerstones of sustainable development by discovering the unexploited forms of value creation and managing the utilization of the majority of human, natural and human-created physical resources.

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Social

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Moral norms and values, relationships and trust between individuals, as well as organizations, institutions, cultural activities and cultural heritage make up the social resources of a nation. Social capital is the result of historical development, therefore its quality is largely determined by the relation of individuals and organizations to the crucial stages of this development (national history), as well as to the intellectual and material recollections (cultural heritage).