Project: On Climate & Democratic Security in CEE

Our latest project aims to analyse the ongoing challenges related to climate and democratic security in CEE and provide strategic foresight to garner impactful policy debates on these issues.

As the war in Ukraine creates a ripple effect throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian aggression has aggravated many of the regions’ pre-existing problems but has triggered important changes in areas of energy security, environmental policy and social policy, which are the key pillars of climate and democratic security. This has created a massive impact on policy developments and societal trends in the region which necessitates a systematic monitoring process along with a foresight-driven actionable policy debate. 

This project addresses the need for thorough long-term monitoring of these policies through networked research conducted by the Visegrad Insight team and fellows from CEE countries along with foresight activities that generate a missing policy debate between the key policy influencers in CEE. This project also identifies the need to stimulate public outreach on climate security along with the debate on democratic security.

Policy Briefs and Papers

• The Greening Process of Heating and Transportation (November 2023)
• How to Address Energy Poverty in Poland (September 2023)
• How Will Coal Backtracking Affect Just Transition in Poland and the V4? (March 2023)
• Is the Windfall Tax the Best Tool For the V4 Countries? (January 2023)

Funded in partnership with the European Climate Foundation.

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• climate
• Climate Change
• Democratic Security
• Energy