Author Archives: Balatonyi Laszlo

EUSDR Consultation on Water, Emergency Response and Disaster Risk ManagementMostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 April 2025 Overview Under the 2025 Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the EU Strategy for

The Danube River Basin, home to over 80 million people across 19 countries, faces mounting challenges from climate change, extreme weather events, and environmental risks. To address these issues, the

The recent EUSDR Annual Forum, held on 20-21 June, 2023, in Vienna under the Austrian presidency, featured a significant parallel session titled “Navigating Nature’s Extremes: Understanding the Dynamics of Floods

Improving the Safety of Tailings Management Facilities in the Danube River Basin A highly anticipated kick-off took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on 19-20 March, as the SAFETY4TMF project, an

The European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) produces European overviews of ongoing and forecasted floods up to 10 days in advance and contributes to better protection of the European citizens, the

On October 10th and 11th, the much-anticipated biannual Danube Forecasting Forum (DAFF) took place in Budapest, Hungary. Organized in collaboration with the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube

Ivan Zavadsky has chaired the Secretariat of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) for nearly a decade. As the incoming fourth Secretary General, Birgit Vogel

Nature based solutions (hereafter: NBS) are actions to protect, sustainable manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity

Droughts can cause forest fires or food and water shortages. When it rains heavily on the dried soil, floods can occur, making shortages worse or triggering the outbreak of diseases.

At the end of the last year ICPDR adopted the updated texts, annexes and maps for both the DRBMP & DFRMP Updates 2021. In a process that takes place every