EU agrees on climate neutrality until 2050, Poland against

EU leaders agreed on achieving EU climate neutrality by 2050 at the summit in Brussels, despite Poland refusing to sign up to the plan. A joint statement from the COP 25 summit said, without naming Poland, that "one member state, at this stage, cannot commit to implementing this objective" but said the European Council would return to the issue in June 2020. 

Poland, which highly depends on coal, insisted it needed more details on financing the costs of energy transformation. European Commission, however, does not plan to delay the implementation of its actions on climate neutrality. “I completely accept that Poland needs a closer look at our proposal of the Just Transformation Fund,” said the European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen after the talks. “Poland is a country that has to catch up with the rest, it needs more time to go through the details, but this will not change the Commission's schedule,” she added.

(PAP)