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The COP24 is over, the election campaign is starting, in which the dispute over Poland’s energy and climate policy will play an increasingly important role, which may end in changes in the government, but not necessarily a change in Polish politics – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

“We want the customers that have access to coal to have access to gas as well. The golden era of this commodity is ahead of us,” said Piotr Woźniak, President of PGNiG, during the COP24 climate conference in Katowice.

What are the negotiations of the climate summit about? What decision can be expected? Says Lidia Wojtal, an expert on climate policy and ex-negotiator in the team of the Polish delegation, currently an independent consultant.

We have a draft energy strategy until 2040, which will be submitted to social consultations until January 15, 2019. This means that by the end of the year there will be no official Polish Energy Policy until 2040 – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Yesterday, the building of the European Parliament was the venue of the “COP24 – The Road to Katowice: Changing Together for a Just Energy Transition” conference organised by EurActiv and the PKEE. Should the European Union as a whole increase its climate ambitions? Will we be the global climate policy leader or will we turn […]

As climate change and global warming are bearing down on the planet, the calls for renewable, sustainable sources of energy are becoming too loud to drown out. We need ways to generate power that don’t rely on burning fossil fuels that release noxious gases into the air. And while solar energy was the first renewable […]

Brussels was the venue of the “Balancing Coal and Climate: What is a ‘just’ Energy transition?” conference. The meeting was opened by Mr Filip Grzegorczyk, President of the Management Board of the Grupa Tauron and Vice-President of the Polish Electricity Association.

The European Commission has given up plans to tighten the European emissions reduction goal for 2030 ahead of the UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice as member states did not voice sufficient support for the ambitious target to reduce CO2 levels by 45 percent instead of just 40 percent compared to 1990 levels, the Frankfurter […]

Germany’s energy consumption fell by one percent in the first half of 2018 as warm weather in the spring reduced the need for heating. A rise in renewable energy generation that pushed out coal in the power sector also helped to cut energy-related CO2 emissions by around three percent, data from the energy market research […]

PKEE Summer Day in Brussels has hosted the Deputy Minister of Energy and the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Poland for the COP24 Climate Summit, Michał Kurtyka. In his opinion, the electromobility presents an opportunity for changes in Poland.