agatka131
5 Jan 2010
Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]
Poland is not an energy efficient country, we as a nation do not care much for our carbon footprint and I don't think it's gonna change very quick. Poles care when it comes to the business that they can make money on it ( like wind farms recently- that's the topic you can ask me anything about). the same is with the political level- when it's about money we are environmental fiendly, when it's about fees- we cutting down carbon emissions. Not often people recycle rubbish or save water or energy, it's sad but I would say that if they do it's more for a money saving reasons than environment. Climate change and environment are just slogans nowadays, behind which ones companies make huge money not a plan for saving our planet.
I would like to see it changes, I guess young people and children are more aware and can see bigger picture better than older generation. What is a hope for the country where over 80% energy produced comes from heavy old coal industrial plants? We try to participate in Clean Development Mechanisms but we simply can not afford it. The only reason we build wind farms are subsidies and prize for green certificates which make them profitable. The only reason we have just few biogas stations here while our neighbours- Germany have hundreds its a lack of subsidies and regulations.
Anyway, I don't know which country you come from, I assume is UK? I had lived there for few years ( and studied sustainable energy systems :) ) and I noticed how much people are sensitive about switching off tv over night, using more bikes than cars, stop buying food in plastic, getting more local products than ones from overseas. It will not have much chance to happen in Poland because the situation here never got to such a bad state than in reacher countries, we always tried to do all the above things,just for the different reasons!
Poland is not an energy efficient country, we as a nation do not care much for our carbon footprint and I don't think it's gonna change very quick. Poles care when it comes to the business that they can make money on it ( like wind farms recently- that's the topic you can ask me anything about). the same is with the political level- when it's about money we are environmental fiendly, when it's about fees- we cutting down carbon emissions. Not often people recycle rubbish or save water or energy, it's sad but I would say that if they do it's more for a money saving reasons than environment. Climate change and environment are just slogans nowadays, behind which ones companies make huge money not a plan for saving our planet.
I would like to see it changes, I guess young people and children are more aware and can see bigger picture better than older generation. What is a hope for the country where over 80% energy produced comes from heavy old coal industrial plants? We try to participate in Clean Development Mechanisms but we simply can not afford it. The only reason we build wind farms are subsidies and prize for green certificates which make them profitable. The only reason we have just few biogas stations here while our neighbours- Germany have hundreds its a lack of subsidies and regulations.
Anyway, I don't know which country you come from, I assume is UK? I had lived there for few years ( and studied sustainable energy systems :) ) and I noticed how much people are sensitive about switching off tv over night, using more bikes than cars, stop buying food in plastic, getting more local products than ones from overseas. It will not have much chance to happen in Poland because the situation here never got to such a bad state than in reacher countries, we always tried to do all the above things,just for the different reasons!