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The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement Studies. The movement politicises and mobilises many young people that have had little contact with politics until now.

Refinery and petrochemical group Unipetrol has long been committed to environmental protection. In 2018 it spent a record-high sum of CZK 1.87 billion in capital and operating expenditure on environmental protection. The amount invested in this area has totalled CZK 6.7 billion over the past five years.

​ORLEN Paliwa, an ORLEN Group company, has signed a cooperation agreement with Green Lab Sp. z o.o. that will help secure diesel supplies for companies of the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR). In the first stage of the programme, ORLEN Paliwa will deliver ca. 16 million litres of diesel oil this year alone to […]

Scientists report that global temperature increases must be limited to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. With global greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase and rising temperatures driving up the frequency of extreme weather events, the world needs a greater commitment to climate policy – writes Guntram B. Wolff for Bruegel think tank.

​The ORLEN GIFT FROM THE HEART Foundation has invited applications for the second edition of ‘My Place on Earth’, a programme designed with local communities in mind. Applications for grants supporting community initiatives may be submitted by NGOs and local government institutions from all over Poland by September 9th 2019. The amount allocated this year […]

The new members of the European Parliament and European Commission who start their mandates in 2019 should put in place major policy elements to unleash the energy transition. It is becoming economically and technically feasible, with most of the necessary technologies now available and technology costs declining. The cost of the transition would be similar […]

On July 12, 2019, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Danish EPA) issued two environmental decisions related to the location of the onshore part of the Baltic Pipe in Denmark – one for Gaz-System S.A. and the other one for the Danish gas and energy transmission system operator – Energinet.

The debate on climate change is vulgar. It is enough, however, to look at data* to understand that harmful myths start to dominate it – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

According to Mateusz Perowicz, collaborator of BiznesAlert.pl, Poles can make a significant contribution to environmental protection by cleaning the Baltic Sea from wrecks.

On Wednesday 17 July, the European Parliament held a debate to vote on Ursula von der Leyen’s candidacy for the position of President of the European Commission. The German politician outlined her vision and action plan. – An increasing number of measures in the EU will be taken through the assessment of their compliance with […]