COP24.

The prime minister will find it difficult to change the energy strategy because he is in danger of being replaced. On the eve of the next elections, the strategy kneels before politics – says Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

What goes on in Poland on the 7th of December.

„Coal was and will be the foundation of Polish energy and it will remain so for a long time.” „Poland is quitting coal the fastest in Europe”. These are two contradictory messages sent by the same ruling camp. They show that the Polish delegation has not prepared a thorough and consistent message for the climate […]

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.

„Electromobility is the technology of tomorrow. And we have ambitions for Poland to contribute to the global climate policy. We want to create global trends by proposing a Partnership and an annual Forum in this area” – said Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Environment, President of COP24 Michał Kurtyka, presenting a new […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.