Four years later, he re-emphasized the importance of the green energy movement in his February 2024 state of the nation address, saying that, “the future belongs to green energy,” and touted the nation’s solar capacity.
However, later that year, he joined President Donald Trump during his second presidential campaign at an anti-climate event co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, the ultra-conservative group behind Project 2025, and the Danube Institute, a Hungarian think tank supportive of Orbán. Another think tank linked to Orbán’s administration held an event to discuss the “perils of net zero” in Brussels that same year.
While Magyar has yet to say much on climate action, the Tisza Party that brought him to power has pledged to rebuild independent protections for nature and enforce stricter regulation of polluting industries. The party has vowed to end the country’s reliance on Russian energy by 2035 and double its share of renewable energy by 2040. And Magyar hopes to end the country’s estrangement with the European Union—which could open up more funding for green investments.
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