BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive told Poland and Estonia on Friday to draw up new, lower limits for carbon dioxide emissions for a cap-and-trade program running from 2008 to 2012.
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WARSAW, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Poland will sign an accord shortly under the global Kyoto Protocol to sell surplus carbon emission permits worth 15 million euros to Ireland, Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki said on Saturday.
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WARSAW, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Poland may sell up to 1.6 billion euros of its carbon emission permits AAUs (Assigned Amount Units) by 2012, environment minister Maciej Nowicki told TVN CNBC news channel.
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Poland has been pushing to have its carbon cap raised while environmentalists claim that carbon markets are deeply flawed
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Poland intends to sell its surplus CO2 quotas to Japan.
Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki, currently on a four day visit to Tokyo, said that revenue raised by the sale would be transferred to acquiring modern Japanese technology for decreasing energy consumption of Polish industrial plants.
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‘The refusal of free CO2 emission rights to power plants which started operating before 31 December 2008 is cheating EU countries with highest coal dependence’, Prof. Krzysztof Żmijewski of Warsaw Technical University told wnp.pl.
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s shortfall of pollution permits under the European Union’s climate plan may reach a lower-than-expected 50 million tons between 2008 and 2012, Deputy Environment Minister Bernard Blaszczyk said on Thursday.
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland may ban utilities from selling European Union carbon emissions permits many of them will get for free from 2013 as a way of curbing windfall profits, a government source said on Wednesday.
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By 2013 EU’s biggest carbon emission polluter – a power plant in Poland – will have to buy up to 20 million tonnes of CO2 emission permits.
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Restrictions in CO2 emission rights and the implementation of the EC’s 3×20 programme are a big challenge for Poland’s economy. Also dramatically mounting are problems with waste management and processing, where years of negligence have put Poland in the EU tail.
To-date experiences in EU countries show that waste-generated energy is cheapest and waste incineration generates 2-3 times less pollution than traditional fuels. In the EU heat-processing installations for communal waste are considered an environmentally neutral CO2 source.
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WARSAW, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Poland will allocate 2008 carbon dioxide (CO2) emission permits to its industry only when the European Union’s executive Commission passes them to Warsaw, an official said on Thursday.
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