Determined green progress that strengthens democracies is the only sustainable path toward a safe and peaceful future for humanity.

On November 11, let us unite and build it together.

Where, if not on Russia’s border, should we lead the way toward a future beyond oil?

Twenty years ago, we founded the Vilnius GreenTech Forum in an effort to confront the systems and influence groups that had driven Lithuania and much of the European Union into deep dependence on Gazprom gas. At the time, we warned that the billions paid for gas would one day finance weapons used to kill, destroy cities, and drag democracies into the flames of war.

That is precisely what happened. Today, we therefore feel a responsibility to unite, to the best of our ability, democratic forces in business, politics, and society around a decisive breakthrough: advancing a form of green progress that would sustainably and increasingly reduce oil consumption in ways most beneficial to democratic economies and citizens’ well-being, while minimizing the threat of new wars in Europe financed by oil billions.

We believe this is one of the most important goals that forward-looking and patriotic
business leaders and professionals should pursue together with us today. This
becomes clear when reading the insights outlined in our forum mission.

We encourage you to explore the forum’s mission and the key objectives for 2026, which will later shape the forum sessions, and to accept our invitation to collaborate, to unite and work together toward a form of progress that helps secure a safe and peaceful future for democratic Europe.

We will greatly appreciate your questions, thoughts, suggestions, and, of course, your support, as it is essential for successfully carrying out our mission. Please contact my colleague Almantas Gliožeris at almantas@valstybe.eu.

Eduardas Eigirdas

Publisher and editor of magazine VALSTYBĖ

Initiator of the Vilnius GreenTech Forum