Abstract
Climate change is one of the key civilisational issues. This change is caused by greenhouse gas emission. Stopping this change requires multidirectional actions on a global scale, primarily limiting the combustion of fossil fuels. What reaches towards these needs is the proposals of the international community, which are determined in the protocol of 15 December 2015 (called the Paris Agreement). The legal framework for the strategy of implementing it in the European Union and the member states is formulated by the legislative package “Clean Energy For All Europeans”. The directions and terms of developing the economy pose particular challenges for Poland which plans to maintain the significant role of coal in the energy industry for decades. Government documents show that the government of the Republic of Poland will not decide on the spectacular decarbonisation of the economy. It cannot be obligated to do it, either, due to the treaty conditions. However, the future of the coal energy industry seems prejudged. This results from the development directions of European economic-legal instruments which serve the direct (determining binding emission standards and environmental quality standards) and indirect (through influencing the prices of greenhouse gas emission allowances) rationing of the activity of entities from the energy sector in the environment.
Highlights
The Polish energetics is based mainly on installations in which fossil fuels are combusted
This change is caused by greenhouse gas emission. Stopping this change requires multidirectional actions on a global scale, primarily limiting the combustion of fossil fuels. What reaches towards these needs is the proposals of the international community, which are determined in the protocol of 15 December 2015
The percentage of renewable energy sources in the final consumption of gross energy amounted to 13% in 2018, of which 1.4% was the combustion of biomass, and 11.6% constituted other sources, water plants included.[2]
Summary
The Polish energetics is based mainly on installations in which fossil fuels are combusted. The new energy policy of the EU is targeted at protecting the climate and reducing the emission of CO2, until the achievement of the so-called coal neutrality in 2050 It is based on new or amended legal acts, adopted in 2018 and 2019, which make a complex transformation of the European energy policy, focusing on such key issues as energy efficiency,[14] renewable energy sources,[15] the energy. It has already been mentioned that the installations used for the energy combustion of fuels have a negative influence on elements of the environment which are other than the climate,[21] primarily on water and the air These impacts did not go unnoticed by the European legislator, either, leading to restricting the emission requirements over the years. The conclusions drawn from the analysis of those provisions are presented in sections 3 and 4
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