EU wants even lower CO2 emissions
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It is necessary to reduce CO2 emissions in transportation, agriculture, and housing even further than previously thought. In this way, the EU wants to increase its climate ambitions. As a result, Poland has even more to do, since our country's emissions, especially in the transportation sector, are increasing.
The new draft regulations are part of the Fit for 55 packages. The higher targets are to apply to selected sectors, which together account for about 60 percent of the EU's greenhouse gas emissions. The existing target for these sectors was adopted in the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) in 2018. Emissions are to be reduced by at least 29 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. The new proposal increases this target: emissions would be reduced by as much as 40 percent.
Under the new proposal, Poland will have to reduce emissions from selected sectors by 17.7 percent. This is much more than the previous regulation required. Poland's 2018 target is 7 percent.
On top of that, our country has so far done little to achieve even this smaller target. From 2005 to 2021, Poland's total CO2 emissions increased by 1 percent. That's data from the EU's Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR).
