Nature-Friendly Innovation Against Climate Change

Text: Bálint Botzheim

A key agent in climate change in the Carpathian Basin happens to be water, of which we temporarily have too much or too little. In spring and early summer sudden showers and downpours are often accompanied by flash floods. In the latter half of the summer, however, we have to face droughts as a rule. 2019 saw the start of a new initiative, within the framework of which innovative solutions to reserve water have been realized as an experimental programme: five villages ambitioned to lessen the impacts of five different models respectively.