Climate Obstruction in Poland: A Governmental–Industrial Complex
- Autores: Kacper Szulecki, Tomas Maltby, Julia Szulecka
- Localización: Climate Obstruction across Europe / coord. por Robert J. Brulle, J. Timmons Roberts, Miranda Armour-Chelu, 2024, ISBN 9780197762080, págs. 201-228
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Poland is known for its climate scepticism and denial throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Despite its recent rapid deployment of renewable energy sources, Poland remains Europe’s most coal-dependent economy. Since 2004, consecutive governments have been ‘pulling the brake’ on the European Union’s more ambitious climate policy initiatives and decarbonization targets. There are recent signs of changing societal attitudes, but the country is alone among EU nations in lacking a net zero emissions target or a coal power phase-out date. This situation has been created and perpetuated by a coalition of governmental institutions, agencies, state-owned energy companies, and utilities that constitute a governmental–industrial complex (GIC). While the GIC has moderated its discourse and policies, it continues to promote ‘silver bullet’ technologies such as ‘clean’ coal and new nuclear power plants. Poland’s commitment to a just, gradual energy transition is a climate imposter tactic, part of an overarching strategy of delay.
