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Works are underway on the final draft anti-smog legislation. Judging from consultations conducted by Piotr Woźny, Deputy Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology, the scope of these regulations may be significantly extended – writes Teresa Wójcik, editor of BiznesAlert.pl.

On Tuesday in Strasbourg, the first reading of the revision of the Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Directive, the so-called EU ETS for the period 2021-2030, was completed. Now the issue will be addressed by the EU Council – writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

The introduction of special zones in cities with smog phenomenon was widely discussed for the first time in Poland in the spring of 2014. Krzysztof Bolesta, PolitykaInsight.pl analyst, talks with BiznesAlert.pl about the idea of creating zero-emission zones. 

The global climate summit in Bonn (COP23) in November 2017 was supposed to bring compromise close on areas such as rules for monitoring national climate actions. The universality of these actions, that is, covering both developed and developing countries, was one of the main ideas of the Paris Agreement. In Bonn, however, the divisions between […]

Central and Eastern European countries that want to go through energy transition, but in evolutionary way. How can the European Commission and energy community in general could help those countries adapt to the new situation? We interviewed Dominique Ristori, the director-general of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission.

Reserve power plants in Germany are the missing half of the Energiewende – Piotr Grądzik writes, a co-worker of BiznesAlert.pl.

The negotiations on the shape of the EU ETS post-2021 are coming to an outcome and Central Europe Energy Partners wants to seize the momentum and underline that the energy transition should be pursued in a cost-effective manner and according to the technology neutrality principle. This will allow different market participants to find sustainable business […]

It is a very interesting period for the European electricity system, which is undergoing big, systematic changes. The transition towards a low-carbon economy means a growing role for renewable energy sources, greater energy efficiency and the electrification of transport and other sectors, which power markets have to respond to. Naturally, in such a framework, electricity […]

There are still no stable regulations for renewable energy sources (RES). Discussions are in full swing, writes Teresa Wójcik, editor at BiznesAlert.pl.

In this children’s game only one person has a blindfold on while trying to tag the other players. I am not sure whether only one person has their eyes covered in the hard-core version of the game that is played by Poland’s hard coal mining industry – writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily.