Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe

The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-profit, non-advocacy, independent international environmental organisation. Its mission is to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe including non-governmental organisations, governments, and businesses.

Areas that the REC works in include biodiversity, climate change, providing environmental information, environmental law, environmental policy, promoting public participation, renewable energy, sustainable development, and waste management.

The REC was established by the European Commission, Hungary, and the United States in 1990. Currently, the REC is legally based on a charter signed by the governments of 29 countries and the European Commission, and on an international agreement with the government of Hungary.

The REC's head office is in Szentendre, Hungary. It has offices in 17 Central and Eastern European countries. It has sister institutions in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine.

The REC publishes a quarterly magazine called Green Horizon, which was...
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