CEE CLIMATE POLICY FRONTIER

The report analyzes climate policy performance in the transport and buildings sectors across CEE countries, highlighting specific successful initiatives. In transport, it identifies Romania's 'Rabla' car scrappage scheme, Hungary's Jedlik Ányos Action Plan for electric vehicles, Poland's electric bus rollout, Slovakia's railway modernization, and the Czech Republic's integrated public transport laws as regional benchmarks. In the buildings sector, it highlights Romania's EIB-financed thermal insulation, Slovakia's long-term retrofit support, Poland's solar collector promotion, and the Czech Republic's heat pump subsidies. The document argues that these 'first mover' experiences can be transferred across the region to accelerate the low-emission transition.

• Romania's 'Rabla' and 'Rabla plus' car scrappage schemes have significantly reduced emissions by replacing old vehicles with low-emission alternatives, saving more than 900,000 tCO2 since 2014 and scrapping almost 660,000 vehicles.
• Hungary leads the CEE region in the electric passenger vehicle market, with a 1.4% share of e-cars in new registrations in 2018, supported by the Jedlik Ányos Action Plan of 2015 which introduced green number plates and purchase grants.
• Poland has established the largest electric bus fleet in the CEE region, with 148 buses in operation by 2018, driven by the Polish Act for Electromobility which targets 30% emissions-free public transport fleets for communities over 50,000 inhabitants by 2028.
• Slovakia has seen a 60% increase in total rail transport volume between 2005 and 2016, supported by over EUR 1.9 billion allocated for modernization of infrastructure and rolling stock for the 2014-2020 period.
• The Czech Republic is the regional leader in heat pump adoption, with a share of 1.4% in final energy consumption, supported by the 'New Green Savings' and 'Boiler Subsidy' programs which subsidized 15,094 heat pumps between 2010 and 2017.
• Romania utilized approximately EUR 600 million in EIB municipal loans to provide thermal insulation for 2,200 buildings in Bucharest, resulting in energy savings of up to 50% for retrofitted buildings.
• Slovakia's State Fund for Housing Development has provided EUR 803 million in loans for refurbishment and insulation between 1996 and 2016, contributing to a 35% reduction in energy consumption for thermal uses per surface area between 2005 and 2015.
• Poland's promotion of solar collectors between 2010 and 2015, backed by a EUR 104 million budget, led to over 67,000 installations and a relative increase in the share of solar water heating from 0.03% in 2010 to 0.24% in 2017.

APA

Błocka, M., Marszał, K., Śniegocki, A., Wetmańska, Z., Błachowicz, A., Padmanabhan, C., Ramos, A., Nutu, A. O., Bart, I., Csernus, D., Marčík, F., Mišík, M., & Oravcová, V. (2019). CEE CLIMATE POLICY FRONTIER. Climate Strategies. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CEE-CLIMATE-POLICY-FRONTIER_2019.pdf

Chicago

Błocka, Małgorzata, Karolina Marszał, Aleksander Śniegocki, Zofia Wetmańska, Andrzej Błachowicz, Chandrima Padmanabhan, Alicia Ramos, et al. CEE CLIMATE POLICY FRONTIER. Climate Strategies, 2019. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CEE-CLIMATE-POLICY-FRONTIER_2019.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{bocka2019cee, author = {Błocka, Małgorzata and Marszał, Karolina and Śniegocki, Aleksander and Wetmańska, Zofia and Błachowicz, Andrzej and Padmanabhan, Chandrima and Ramos, Alicia and Nutu, Ana Otilia and Bart, István and Csernus, Dóra and Marčík, František and Mišík, Matúš and Oravcová, Veronika}, title = {{CEE CLIMATE POLICY FRONTIER}}, institution = {Climate Strategies}, year = {2019}, month = sep, url = {https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CEE-CLIMATE-POLICY-FRONTIER_2019.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }