Poland Ties Climate-Deal Ratification to EU Concessions on Coal
- Government in Warsaw wants guarantees on free emission permits
- Coal to stay main source of energy in Poland ‘for many years’
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Poland said it will ratify the global climate deal that the U.S. and China joined last week only after it gets European Union assurances on investment in coal-based power plants.
The east European country, which relies on the most polluting fossil fuel for about 90 percent of its electricity production, plans to start procedures to ratify the global climate-protection Paris agreement reached in December and the United Nations deal on 2013-2020 emissions limits agreed to in Doha in 2012. The latter was blocked last year by Poland’s president, who said it needed more economic and legal analyses.