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Little hope for EU CO2 agreement?
Poland’s government is not hopeful for reaching agreement on climate change at the European Council summit in Brussels, starting today.
di Staff
“I am sceptical about the chances for an agreement. There is no consensus around the European Commission’s proposal for the EU to have a single financial contribution for Copenhagen,” Poland’s Minister for Europe Mikolaj Dowgielewicz told Reuters.
Just two months before the UN Copenhagen summit on climate change, the EU is divided on how to spread the burden of cutting gas emissions and help that should be given to less developed countries to produce less carbon-intensive energy.
Poland is leading the way among poorer EU states in calling for a “means test” to be applied to the amount of help given to third world countries.
Last month, Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski said that it was absurd that, at present, countries like the UK were calling for “the poorer nations of the EU to help the richer nations of the EU to help the poorer nations of the world…”
Greenpeace call for “climate solidarity”
Greenpeace have staged another climate change protest in Poland ahead of tomorrow’s EU summit in Brussels.
Greenpeace climbed a crane at the Malaszewicze coal port in Biala Podlaska, on the Polish-Ukrainian border, this morning.
Eight activists from Poland, Austria, Sweden and Italy hung a banner on the crane saying: “Coal is the past, it’s time for climate solidarity!” Alongside the banner, the protesters hung a large portrait of Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
“Even though Poland is one of the world’s biggest coal producers, it still imports coal from the east, particularly from Russia. It is an absurd situation. This is why we are staging a protest at the eastern border,” said press spokesperson, Magdalena Zowsik.
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