Paris agreement.

What goes on in Poland on the 20th of September.

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 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 […]

What goes on in Poland on the 31st of October.

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

US President Trump has made it clear that he is not happy with the Paris Agreement. This week he will announce whether the US will withdraw from the Agreement altogether. What might that mean for the global fight against climate change? US decarbonisation is already well underway but the EU would need to step up […]

„In accordance with his earlier statements, the American President pulled the USA out of the Paris climate agreement (COP21). The decision will have a number of long- and short- term repercussions for the global climate and energy policy,” writes Konrad Świrski, professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and CEO of Transition Technologies.

„Except for showcasing the First Ladies’ fashionable gowns, the Sicily’s G7 summit also resulted in the predictable appearance of support for Poland’s lonely climate negotiation position,” writes professor Konrad Świrski from the Warsaw University of Technology and the Transition Technologies company.