Wednesday 2 December 2015

COP21: Prime Minister Beata Szydlo at the inauguration of the climate summit in Paris

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Prime Minister Beat Szydlo in Paris

Polish Prime Minister, Beata Szydlo, took part in Monday's inauguration of the COP21, gave the negotiators a mandate to develop a concrete solutions in the text climate agreement. 

She opened her speech with the reference to the attacks that took place in Paris in November, expanding its meaning to universal value of security; she said:

“It is important that we work in solidarity on key issues and make sure that all people feel safe and able to calmly think about the future “,

 Adding that this also applies to climate protection.

The head of Polish government stressed out that Poland will sign an agreement regarding the limits of the emission of CO2, but under the condition that the interests of Polish economy will be protected. Considering Poland’s heavy economic dependence on the coal exploration industry*, commitment to too restrictive emission guidelines could be not only faced with general social discontent, but also with serious financial consequences for many branches of Polish economy.

For the same reason, Poland has been opposing the emission reduction roadmap in the past. Read about Poland’s statement on the stabilization of European CO2 emission allowances market: click

It is important to remind that Poland already managed the emission reduction tremendously. In comparison to the start level (1988), Poland reduced its emission of CO2 by 30 % with the double increase of GDP (often correlated to GHG emission level).

Concluding her presentation, Prime Minister Szydlo pointed out crucial criteria that should be kept in mind during the negotiations – that “(…) all countries of the world must be involved in climate policy and they have to take responsibility for the changes that will be implemented, in the same time taking into account the interests of individual economies”.


COP21 (United Nations Conference on Climate Change) is the 21st Conference of all countries which want to take action for the climate. This year’s edition will be held in Le Bourget, France, from 30 November to 11 December.

See the website for more details: http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/




*coal exploration industry in itself does not produce high level of emission of CO2; due to the fact that Poland explores coal, it is the cheapest source of energy  which is therefore burned ( on commercial scale in power plants, heat producing plants and heavy industry production plants) and emits carbon dioxide






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