Poland can accelerate reduction of emissions: report
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Poland is able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2017 by 91 percent and increase carbon uptake just enough to compensate for the remaining 9 percent of emissions that are particularly difficult to reduce, a McKinsey & Company report said
In a cost-optimal scenario, it will cost €380 billion. It will also bring a decrease in operating costs, development of new industries and 300,000 of new jobs.
Greenhouse gas emissions in Poland have decreased from 447 megatonnnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 1990 to 380 in 2017. By 2050, emissions reduction would have to accelerate four times so that the home economy would become carbon neutral.
In Poland, emissions arise mainly in five areas: industry (22 percent of all), transport (15 percent), buildings (especially during their heating and air-conditioning – 11 percent), agriculture (nearly 11 percent) and power engineering (38 percent). The transformation of latter poses the biggest challenge. Approx. 77 percent of electricity comes from coal.
To achieve climate neutrality in Poland, the share of coal in Poland's energy mix must be reduced by almost 95 percent. In contrast, the share of renewable energy would have to increase by 80 percent.
