In keeping with tradition, the Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency organised the Earth Day Conference in the Lake Balaton Region on 30 April 2025 in frame of the INACO project. The conference was organised at the LBDCA’s renewed headquarters, the so-called Lake Balaton Climate Academy in Siófok.
“The Lake Balaton area is a region of solidarity, which is strong and able to become a collaborative community, takes responsibility for its role playing in climate change, can effectively protect its natural environment and society, confidently stands for the values of sustainable development and rejects excessive consumption harmful for the environment.” (Vision for the Climate Strategy of the Lake Balaton Recreational Area)
In spite of the fact, that climate change has a huge impact on natural and cultural heritage, the protection and conservation of these values are not sufficiently addressed yet by the policies. The INACO project aims to strengthen the resilience of the Central European regions to climate change and its impacts on cultural and natural heritage in river basins. Transnational strategies, integrated web-based solutions and risk management plans will be developed in the project to support local authorities in implementing and adopting measures to protect cultural and natural heritage sites exposed to climate change risks such as floods, landslides, forest fires and drought, and water scarcity.
The aim of our event was to increase the knowledge of participants. They received information about the INACO project, the extreme weather events experienced in the Lake Balaton Region in recent years and also about the protection, conservation, vulnerability of natural, geological and cultural heritage and the related disaster risks.