The Polish government has announced that it was willing to ratify the Paris agreement and the Doha agreement but that the country needed guarantees on financing new coal-fired investments.
In October 2015, Poland vetoed the Doha amendment (2012) to extend the protocol of Kyoto until 2020 and to cut CO2 emissions of the European Union by at least 20% by 2020. So far, only a few EU countries have completed the ratification of the Doha amendment and Poland's ratification could accelerate the move.
Under Poland's Energy Policy until 2030, the share of coal in energy production is expected to decrease by 16.5% and that of lignite by 23% by 2030, but these energies will remain significant in the energy mix. The share of coal could range between 10-15%, 30% and 40% according to the various scenarios sketched in the new draft energy policy to 2050 (2014). Poland's power plant new-build plans will remain based on coal to ensure energy security and local employment. The country bets on new technologies such as supercritical units to reduce emissions and wants to use free allowances for domestic power generation, as planned in the Paris agreement.
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