A meeting of the European Council was held on 20-21 June this year with the participation of the leaders of the European Union (EU) Member States. The main topic of the meeting was climate neutrality until 2050.
As many as 6 out of 28 Member States did not support the 2050 target, among them: Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic.
Poland’s opinion on the adoption of the 2050 target is conditioned by an earlier analysis of the EU Member States with the 2030 and 2050 targets. The Minister for European Affairs, Konrad Szymański, pointed to an important element of the Polish position, namely “burden sharing” i. e. determining what part of the reduction under the new 2050 target would fall to Poland and other countries.
Government spokesman Piotr Muller wrote on Twitter: Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki defends Poland’s interests in climate policy. Objective: fair distribution of the costs of climate protection taking into account the specificities of the countries. Climate objectives are important, as are the ways in which they can be achieved to ensure the security of citizens, businesses and the economy.
Poland signalled that the best date for adopting an energy strategy would be 2020, due to the need to prepare protective and compensatory measures for regions affected by the consequences of the energy transformation.
The next meeting on climate neutrality is due to take place in December this year.