Negotiators from around the world begin meeting in Warsaw for an annual climate conference. In the past, Poland has made its mark by blocking the EU from calling for stricter greenhouse gas emissions limits. Poland meets around 90 percent of its energy requirements by burning coal. Compared to all other fossil fuels, coal releases the most carbon dioxide when used to create electricity. Despite this, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the country will continue to focus on coal as its main source of energy. The future of Polands energy lies in brown coal (lignite) and black coal, he said at a mining conference in Katowice in September 2013. We respect that reducing emissions is necessary, but we will nevertheless continue to rely on coal. Has Mr Tusk declined to sign Poland up to stringent EU carbon emissions targets because: a. He is a very bad man? b. He is an idiot? c. He knows that it will take a generation or longer to move 90% of the energy production away from coal, unless someone comes up with a workable clean coal system, and he isnt about to pauperise his citizens in the meantime?
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:33:43 +0000
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