Welcome to the ENFO webpage!
The ENFO webpage intends to give you a hand in taking environmentally efficient and environment-concious decisions whenever faced with environmental problems.
The Glossary contains explanations in the field of environmental law, environmental sciences and the relevant technical background.
If you navigate in the Database you can get acquainted with traditional and innovative methods able to measure and assess the actual condition of the environment inclusive of its deterioration or you get to know technologies able to maintain the environment healthy or technologies to remediate it.
Clicking on the Photos button you are given a quick and expressive overview of the areas of interest covered by the ENFO project. The Maps visualise GIS data layers and other environmental data types and help in locating environmental companies, institutions providing information relevant to the respective spot. If you click on the Decision Support (DST) button and you select a specific problem within it, you will be guided through the steps to be taken both in terms of the legal or scientific background.
E-learning gives you an insight into the scientific and practical basis of the modern environmental engineering.
After Registration you can post your methods and technologies in the ENFO database.
The content of the ENFO webpage is arranged in a matrix form combining the environmental elements and their deterioration with the relevant examination methods and remediation, cleaning, treatment procedures. The matrix itself is a table having the environmental elements and their deterioration along its horizontal line and the methods and technologies along the vertical line. This matrix-like arrangement can be found under the Photos and E-learning menus.
ENFO knowledge-base: a short film in Hungarian
2012, the year of Sustainable Energy For All
United Nation according to Millennium Development Goals initiated that the year of 2012 will be dedicated to 'Sustainable energy for all'. With leadership from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN-Energy – a coordinating group of 20 UN agencies – is undertaking the new global initiative.
The main arguments are discussed on the UN website, some of them are mentioned here:
- More than three billion people in developing countries rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating. One and a half billion people are without electricity and even when energy services are available, millions of poor people are unable to pay for them.
- Thus, there is an inextricable link between energy and sustainable development and modern, cleaner and more efficient energy is relevant in the eradication of poverty.
- Access to modern affordable energy services is essential for achieving sustainable development, which would help to reduce poverty and to improve the conditions and standard of living for the majority of the wor ld’s population.
- Access to cleaner energy technology options is essential to achieve a climate-resilient future for all.
- To improve access to reliable, affordable, economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound energy services and resources is necessary for sustainable development.
- UN stressed that the wider use and exploration of available and additional cleaner, new and renewable sources of energy require technology transfer and dispersal on a global scale, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation.
The initiative will engage governments, the private sector, and civil society partners globally to achieve three major goals by 2030:
- Ensure universal access to modern energy services.
- Reduce global energy intensity by 40 per cent.
- Increase renewable energy use globally to 30 per cent.
Our former topical news:
1. The red mud catastrophe in Hungary with photos taken during the field trip done by an expert assistance team one and two months after the unfortunate event: The red-mud spill, red-mud catastrophe in pictures, the broken dyke, one month, and two months after the red mud catastrophe.
2. New topics in the photoalbum for protected and highly protected animals in Hungary: Protected animals in Hungary; Highly protected animals in Hungary
3. 2011 the year of Chemistry: a series of power-point presentations and posters demonstrate the importance of chemistry and the use of chemical substances in medical care and diagnosis, agriculture and food production, energy production and other industries.
