28th March 2011 Bucharest, Romania
This Saturday was a special day for the city of Bucharest and for other places around the country that joined the “Let’s do it Romania” eco-initiative. A great opportunity to help our hometown get a facelift, the clean-up campaign gathered an impressive number of enthusiasts, including five British Embassy staff (photo below). Check our Facebook account […]
28th March 2011 Bucharest, Romania
The British Embassy in Romania has decided to support a wonderful project, which I think will prove that Romanians do stick up for themselves and do care about the environment. I’ve been telling you about the Let’s do it Romania! project some time ago. Looking at their interactive round-the country solid waste map, I was […]
28th March 2011 Bucharest, Romania
I chose to dedicate my first “corporate” blog entry to the Embassy green work as the subject is so closed to my heart – my academic background is a combination of Journalism and Chemical Engineering, and so I have been an avid supporter of environmental protection. It is an impressive accomplishment to see how Romania […]
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28th March 2011 Bucharest, Romania
The British Government has just launched an interactive map that highlights some of the possible impacts of a global temperature rise of 4 degrees Celsius. This is an interesting approach to flag up once again why the UK Government and other countries believe we must keep global warming to 2 degrees Celsius: because beyond that […]
24th March 2011
The Informal Environment Council taking place in Gödöllő on 25-26 March has an exciting agenda even if it doesn’t have a snappy title. This is for several reasons. The topics for discussion are water and climate policy – an appropriate combination from Hungary’s point of view. Because focusing on water issues seems to be able […]
7th March 2011
“Transparency” is a big buzzword whenever people talk about improving the business climate in Ukraine. Everyone agrees that if we can increase transparency in the way economy is run, with a level playing field for all and transparent arrangements for eg tax payments, the business climate will improve. That in turn will boost Foreign Direct […]
11th February 2011
Presidency work at the British Embassy in Budapest is not confined to formal Presidency calendar events. We are also assisting with the intensive bilateral engagement of UK Ministers and senior officials with their Hungarian counterparts. Thanks to the heightened UK interest in all things Hungarian these days, these exchanges often go beyond immediate EU policy […]
4th February 2011
Check out these terrific photographs. They are the winners and honourable mentions of a photo competition called “Save Energy! Stop Climate Change! run by the British Embassy in Kyiv between October and December 2010. The aim of the campaign, about which I blogged in November, is to show the benefits of energy-saving measures both for […]
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1st February 2011
The global climate change debate is often characterised in terms of a struggle between developed and developing world countries. While it is easy to understand why, this duality does not really help us in our efforts to strengthen the global response to climate change and global warming. After all, there are developed countries that are […]
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27th January 2011
In my New Year blog I set out the wide range of areas in which this Embassy is active in promoting good relations between our two countries. The recent visit of Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca to London provided an opportunity to further strengthen that relationship. The principal themes of the meetings in London were two […]