Hungarian success at the Marrakesh climate summit

Globoport.hu writes that, according to Dr. József Steier, the Marrakesh climate summit was not only about the American presidential election, the fear of Donald Trump, or money.

“First of all, Marrakesh passed the exam” says the Hungarian expert, who has been part of the city’s life for more than a year as the representative of HTCC. They built up a whole district from tents between the airport and the city – as the airport is very close to the city centre – which served as the location of the climate summit. Besides being environmentally conscious – as it didn’t overburden the resources of the city, nor was it left as a useless drag after the summit – the location was also successful. They managed the flow of hundreds of politicians, experts and visitors so well that it didn’t affect the everyday life of the city – there weren’t any traffic jams, hitches, in fact, Steier believes that transport was even easier in the city. Naturally, this was partly because of the increased number of policemen and gendarmerie.

Regarding the summit itself, there were two separate parts: the blue and the green zones. Politicians were in the blue zone, that’s where arguments about America’s changing role, the protection of the Paris agreement and the financing of the process happened. The green zone was the zone for companies. There were much less news in the media about this zone, even though the world’s most innovative enterprises gathered here to discuss at the, so called, agoras, how the business sphere could exchange in the topics of environmental protection or money.