Poland will not withdraw from energy transition, but will also continue investing in coal energy, a deputy prime minister said on Monday.
The Sejm, the lower house of parliament, on Thursday rejected all 65 amendments made by the upper house to Poland's 2022 budget bill.
Nearly 80 MEPs have backed a Polish-initiated letter to the European Commission asking for the inclusion of gas as a transit fuel in the EU's decarbonisation programme.
Poland’s prime minister has said the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is fundamentally flawed and in need of “profound” reform.
Counteracting climate change is one of today's most important challenges, said the prime minister in podcast on Friday, referring to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
President Andrzej Duda has stated that Poland will double the production of energy from renewable sources by 2030, but admitted that this is a huge challenge.
Government and union delegates in Katowice, southern Poland on Friday sealed a social contract for the Polish mining sector as Poland enters an EU-imposed energy transformation procedure aimed at eliminating coal from the European energy mix.
Energy transformation, in accordance with the principle of "just transformation", must be participatory, that is, carried out locally, President Andrzej Duda has said.
The coronavirus crisis is a huge shock but also a lesson for Poland on how to close the development gap between Poland and the West, the prime minister has said.
President Andrzej Duda and PM Mateusz Morawiecki took part in the Friday opening of the 10th Poland Major Project Congress, a series of panel discussions between representatives of science, politics, economy and culture.
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