Officials have emphasised that no decision on changing the location has been made.
Officials have emphasised that no decision on changing the location has been made.
The deputy climate minister’s remarks in Brussels are “not an official position of the Polish government”, says her boss.
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Jacek Sasin pointed to the high costs of EU carbon permits, which are particularly heavy for coal-reliant Poland.
Annual inflation reached 7.7% in November, the fifth consecutive monthly rise.
The package – worth an estimated 10 billion zloty – is a response to the highest inflation in two decades.
Reserves of coal have shrunk and global demand has increased amid economic rebound from the pandemic.
Up to three billion zloty (€650 million) will be earmarked for the scheme.
“A just transition must take into account that we do not all start from the same starting point,” said Morawiecki.
As demand for coal picks up, Polish producers want to renegotiate long-term contracts.
Mosbacher was Trump’s envoy to Poland between September 2018 and January 2021.
“We need cheap and clean energy to be able to develop as a state and society,” say Michał Sołowow and Zygmunt Solorz.
Electricity prices rose faster in Poland last year than anywhere else in the EU.
State subsidies have helped more than triple Poland’s solar capacity since the start of 2020.
Poland plans to have six operational nuclear blocks by 2043.