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PRECOP-Climate debate before COP 29 summit

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On October 2-3, 2024, the South Poland Cleantech Cluster participated in the PRECOP climate conference in Katowice, which is a regional preparation for the UN climate summit – COP 29 (UN Climate Change Conference, i.e. the Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). This year’s climate summit will be held on November 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Katowice conference (like last year) aimed to analyze the findings from last year’s COP 28 climate summit and discuss the key, anticipated areas of the upcoming COP 29 debate. Representatives of all parties involved in the climate dialogue took part in over 30 discussion panels; politicians, representatives of Poland at the EU, the President of Katowice Marcin Krupa and local government authorities, scientists from leading Polish universities, and presidents and board members of leading companies that have an impact on the environment. The voice of non-governmental organizations, activists, and artists was also strongly heard.

Bearing in mind the need to provide members of the South Poland Cleantech Cluster with current information, we have selected sessions that best correspond to our areas of activity:

  • Climate Leadership
  • Circular Economy (CE)
  • Polish Energy Sector: Green Revolution or Apocalypse
  • Green Construction
  • Sectors Difficult to Decarbonize
  • Pollution and Human Health

Minister of Industry, Marzena Czarnecka, assured that the Polish industry will ultimately be based on hydrogen and nuclear energy, and all current activities at the ministerial level focus on developing appropriate legislative tools to support this goal. Grzegorz Lot, CEO of the Tauron Group, assured that by 2050 the company will provide customers with completely green energy, generated under the “Clean Wind” program. In Poland, the direction of energy production and consumption by the industry is reversing: in the coming years, new energy will be produced in the north of the country and will come from natural sources, and will be consumed by the industry located in the south of the country. The challenge will be to create an appropriate transmission infrastructure and effective storage. The Energy Support Fund created amounts to EUR 16 billion and these funds should be used wisely.

Attention was drawn to the fact that in recent years the armed conflict in Ukraine has contributed to the increase in emissions and the process of environmental devastation. In Poland, we are dealing with significant desertification of central areas and soil sterility, which directly affects the quantity and quality of manufactured food products. A kind of “Achilles’ heel” in Poland is the packaging industry, where the grey zone still operates and the directives of the European Commission are not enforced. (According to assurances, the new act for the industry should enter into force in 2026). Systemic solutions, coherent legislation and the development of new models of cooperation within supply chains are needed for all challenges. We are pleased that the role of clusters as institutions catalyzing cooperation within individual industries and improving the dialogue between business and local governments was mentioned.

As the South Poland Cleantech Cluster, we will take active steps, also through the activity of our members, to lobby for the creation of law that is more favourable to the development of green construction; so that the still little-known and popular wooden construction in Poland, prefabrication that is gaining economic importance, and finally “green tenders” not yet defined by law, can be fully implemented.