Poland satisfied with EU climate deal
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Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz has expressed satisfaction about the compromise achieved at the EU climate summit, which took place in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. The key source of satisfaction was that Poland has managed to retain its quota of free CO2 emission allowances until 2030.
EU leaders decided at the summit on an at least 40 percent reduction goal for carbon emissions by 2030, to be carried out in the bloc as a whole. At the same time, poorer countries such as Poland were allowed to retain their free emission quota.
“Do you remember my parliament speech,” Kopacz asked Polish journalists in Brussels. “I said we would not come from the summit with extra burdens and there are no extra burdens.”
Poland’s 40 percent free emission quota was originally meant to expire in 2019. It has now been extended until 2030. This should guarantee that electricity prices will not rise, the PM said.
Another decision was the establishment of a reserve fund created with 2 percent of allowances, intended to support energy efficiency in less energy-developed countries. Poland will get 50 percent of that reserve.
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