Poland will ask the European Commission for a new carbon dioxide emission permits quota of 208.5 million tons a year, it said in a statement on Tuesday, in a compromise likely to help end a long dispute with Brussels.
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EU tells Poland and Estonia to set new CO2 cap
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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Poland says to sell CO2 permits to Ireland soon
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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Poland may sell
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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Spain acquires
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Poland has been pushing to have its carbon cap raised while environmentalists claim that carbon markets are deeply flawed
Excess CO2 quotas for sale
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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.
Poland slams EC CO2 emission rights about-turn
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Poland sees lower shortfall of CO2 permits
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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Poland may curb utility CO2 trade from 2013
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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EUs biggest CO2 polluter is expanding
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By 2013 EUs biggest carbon emission polluter
Remedy for CO2 and communal waste
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Restrictions in CO2 emission rights and the implementation of the ECs 3×20 programme are a big challenge for Polands 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.
Poland says awaits EU to allocate 2008 CO2 permits
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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