Thanks to the hospitality of the British Ambassador in Poland, Mr Ric Todd, Climate Coalition and British Embassy organized on January 27th a meeting dedicated to a discussion on the need for a Climate Change Act in Poland.     

Results of a questionnaire carried out by Polish Ecological Club Mazovian Branch among incumbent Members of the Lower House of Polish Parliament from different parliamentary fractions show that almost 80% of them believe that climate change exists and results from human activities. Does it indicate a beginning of good times for Polish economy and climate policy?     

Contrary to the words of politicians, Copenhagen Accord is a political failure and will not save us from catastrophic results of climate change - it is a summary of Climate Coalition’s opinion about the climate summit in Copenhagen.     

According to Climate Coalition, for the time being, the draft of the agreement that was presented this morning at the climate conference in Copenhagen is merely a collection of meaningless political declarations. If the proposed form of the agreement is finally approved during COP15, there would be no chance to keep global temperature rise below the level of 2degC. The document presented this morning neither contains any specific figures concerning greenhouse gases reduction, nor determines time     

According to Climate Coalition, President Barack Obama’s speech at the Climate Conference sounded pretty, but it lacked content. The United States did not change its previous position. Contrary to what everybody had expected, it was not a speech that could have brought about major breakthrough in the negotiations.     

The atmosphere is heating up during the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Behind the scenes as well as openly, country representatives accuse one another of blocking the process and lack of ambitious proposals. There is 1.5 day left until the end of the conference, however the negotiators still repeat their statements and add or remove brackets from the texts, and the leaders make smooth speeches.