Towards JI as an Effective Policy Tool Changing Climate Change

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Polski Klub Ekologiczny

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1. GHG emission in Poland

Poland is the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in Central and Eastern Europe, after Russia and

Ukraine. Polish economy is highly carbon intensive. As demonstrated in Table 1 almost 70% of

Polish energy needs is covered with coal, with a significant share of a highly CO2 intensive lignite.

Coal also dominates the final energy consumption structure, and it constitutes over 35% of the

energy delivered to consumers (an average for the European OECD countries is 8 to 9%). It means

that coal is not only burnt in power plants but a significant amount of it is used directly by various

branches of industry, over a million of small local heating units and boiler houses and several

million households. In recent years, a slow decrease in coal usage has been recorded and

conversion to other fuels is one of the main factors contributing to declining GHG emission.