Poland's decarbonization to accelerate thanks to pandemic
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Public think tank, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) as part of the preparation of the report ‘Foresight Poland 2035. Experts about the future through the prism of a pandemic’ asked 42 experts for their opinions on the development of individual areas of the Polish economy.
As much as 95 percent of them claim that increasing the share of renewable sources in the energy mix to 30 percent. It will greatly contribute to the development of Poland and 67 percent of respondents believe that the pandemic will accelerate the process of decarbonization of the energy sector.
At the end of 2019, PIE presented the first edition of the ‘Foresight Polska 2035’ report.
In some respects, the pandemic verified the attitudes of experts, so the study was repeated at the end of 2020. As in the first study, opinions on the development prospects of six areas of the Polish economy were examined, such as human capital, digitization, transport, energy, environment, and national security.
The most visible correction has been in the areas of energy and environmental protection.
The latest edition of the survey shows that the vast majority (95 percent) of the interviewed experts believe that, from the point of view of Poland's socio-economic development, it is crucial to increase the share of renewable energy sources in final energy consumption to 30 percent from the current 11 percent. As much as 88 percent of respondents consider the elimination of solid fuel combustion as a priority, while 83 percent regards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the EU average as very important. In the opinion of the respondents, the Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate the implementation of these phenomena.
