Climate Policy.

The Minister of Energy, Krzysztof Tchórzewski, told us about the compensations for the growing electricity prices and the possible intervention by the European Commission on the EU ETS market.

While the EU Council is proceeding the draft Regulation on the internal market for electricity Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece and Ireland have presented their joint position on the principles of implementation and operation of the capacity mechanisms. They should guarantee of performance of the capacity contracts concluded before the date of entry […]

The environment ministers of the EU member states have agreed to seek more ambitious CO₂ car emission cuts by 2030 than both the European Commission and the German government had initially proposed.

The COP24 climate summit in Katowice is coming up. Meanwhile, in the US such a summit, organized by supporters of the ambitious US climate policy, opposed by the current President Donald Trump is going on, writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

It is “feasible” that the UN climate summit in Katowice in December (COP24) will produce an agreement on implementation guidelines (also called rulebook or work programme) to the Paris Climate Agreement, Germany’s negotiator Nicole Wilke from the environment ministry has told journalists.

The climate policy is an intent to protect the environment but also an attempt to build a new business that will become another driver for the European economies; we may win there, it depends only on us – said in Katowice on Thursday Jarosław Broda, Vice President of Tauron.

Increasing costs of the CO2 emissions are depriving the Polish energy producers of money they could be spending on the energy transition – judges the president of Tauron, Filip Grzegorczyk. As he points out – ultimately the high CO2 prices will harm the entire national economy and Polish consumers.

It is not disputed that the quality of air in Poland is bad. „We are a sick man in Europe and we have several years to improve the quality of air,” Piotr Woźny, Government Plenipotentiary for the fight against smog, told a press conference on 9 April in Warsaw. The meeting was also attended by […]

The judgment of the European Court of Justice on the poor air quality in Poland gives the subject of the fight against smog a special importance before the local government elections in 2018.

Smog and air pollution are not so much caused by power plants and industry, but above all so-called low emissions, i.e. old domestic heating stoves and local coal-fired boilers. This sector is responsible for over 40 percent of total PM10 dust emissions in Poland, as well as 80% total emission without (a) pyrene B (a) […]