Climate Change: Sources of GHG emissions in Poland
Poland is one of the biggest emitters of GHG gases per capita in Europe. In my opinion comparing emissions in big
Per capita emission in the EU
countries the only good way to measure it is by taking into account per capita indexes. The only big country that is surpassing Poland is Germany. It is probably due to the high-developed industry and its density. Poland’s biggest challenge today in becoming a low emitting country is its enormous coal use in energy production. Almost 94% of electricity comes from coal plants, which are the biggest emitters as far as CO2 is concerned.
The data I have found in the document published by the Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Institute of Environmental Protection show the main sources of the GHG emissions in 2007:
- Fuel combustion 77%
- Power industries 45,8%
- Manufacturing and construction industry 8,8%
- Transport 9,7%
- Other Sectors 12.7%
- Agriculture 8,8%
- Industrial process 8,3%
- Waste 2,2%
Share of GHG emitted in Poland
The CO2 emissions stand for 82,3% of all GHG emissions. Then 9,3% is from methane, the CFC’s and nitrous oxygen stand for 7,5% and finally 0,9% stands for industrial gases. The good information is that since 1988 to 2007 the GHG emissions decreased by 29,3%. As far as the Kyoto protocol is concerned Poland already had achieved their goals, which were a 6% decrease from the base set in 1988.
Looking at the data above it is obvious, what needs to be done to decrease the amount of GHG emitted. The measures needed to do so are already being implemented, e.g. the “3×20” EU policy. The government is also strongly encouraging to private investors to invest in renewable energy sources. Moreover the government is planning to build a nuclear plant by the year 2023.
References:
1. Fifth National Communication under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/pol_nc5.pdf
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26 Jan 2012
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Piotr Adam Lubiewa-Wielezynski
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