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A new chapter. Shifting Poland towards net-zero economy
Abstrakt (EN)
The study aims to demonstrate that without a bold vision of changes in all key sectors of the economy, Poland will spend the decades to come among Europe’s climate laggards, incurring the associated costs and losing subsequent development opportunities in the emerging low-carbon goods and services markets. Chapter one describes however closer ties between climate policy worldwide and in the EU are going to impact the gradually growing challenges facing Poland in terms of energy transformation and building a zero-carbon economy by 2050. Poland’s increasing delay in meeting the current 2020 climate and energy targets is also highlighted, alongside the government’s excessively conservative plans for the coming decade. The key sectors included in the National Energy and Climate Plan – energy, buildings and transport – are analysed in detail, and the chapter concludes with a summary of challenges for the industrial sector, so far almost non-existent in the Polish public debate. Chapter two is focused on the broader climate policy context, including the growing awareness of the scale of threats to the global order posed by climate change, reconfigurations in the power structure on international raw materials and industrial goods markets and the accelerating shift in the financial markets’ approach to high-carbon projects. Chapter three delineates the political framework of low-carbon transition in the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe and Poland, drawing attention to the crucial role of mainstreaming climate policy into the general development policy framework and using it as an opportunity to introduce good governance practices and improve the quality of national economic policies.