Future Climate Change Policy in the New Member States: Project Findings

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Future Climate Change Policy in the New Member States:Project Findings

Project commissioned by the European Commission

Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf

Andrzej Kassenberg

INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Partners

• Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), Warsaw,

• Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Free

University of Amsterdam,

• Foundation for International Environmental Law and

Development (FIELD), London,

• German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin,

• network of experts.


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14./15. June 2006

16 October 2007

11./12. October 2006

11./12. April 2007

25./26. April 2006

Riga

Praha Budapest

Ljubljana

Sofia

23./24. January 2006Warszawa

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Main Project Findings: General (1)

• Climate Change as a threat and costs of inaction

outweigh costs of action (Stern Review),

• European Action on Climate Change welcomed,

• NMS on track to meet KP targets

• NMS ready to reduce further (reduction=increase?)

• Opportunities in NMS for GHG emission reduction and

avoidance by promoting high efficiency and innovation.


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Main Project Findings: General (2)

• Climate change policies as a burden on NMS economies,

• Concerns that NMS will be confronted with climate change policies

and reduction targets at the eleventh hour,

• Limited awareness on Climate Change: public, business and

administrations,

• Limited culture of awareness for international negotiations

• Integrate Climate Change: energy, transport, taxes, cohesion and

structural funds.


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Integration: opportunities for the energy sector in Poland (1)

Poland EU 15

Efficiency of electricity production by power stations

36,5 %% 46,5

Energy-intensity of the economy

462 toe/mllion € GDP 170

Thermo – isolation of flats

150 - 350 kWh/m2/year 40 - 90


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Integration: opportunities for the energy sector in Poland (2)

• the share of renewable in energy production is less than 5% but the

potential technical capacity is 47%;

• if Poland reaches in 2030 the same level of energy efficiency as EU 15

(1% increase yearly following SDS) GDP can grow 3,5 half time without

increase of energy use

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• 10.4 % of household expenditures are spend on energy compared to

3.0 % of expenditure for EU15.


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Main Project Findings: Future International Regime• A new regime:

• obligatory targets,

• include other countries and sectors,

• greater role of adaptation but not substitute measures activity,

• exchange the technologies,

• flexible mechanism, ecological tax reform.

• NMS contribution:

• burden sharing: fair criteria and transparent way,

• more progressive climate policy integrated with economic development,

especially energy and transport sectors,

• participation in international negotiations: capacities.


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Final conclusions and lessons• EU27 needs to provide climate policy much more integrated and

comprehensive with others polices specially structural funds and transport ones

• NMS and CC need to be seen as partners with different starting points, capacities and concerns to climate change policy

• COP 14/ MOP 4 in Poznań (Poland) gives the chance to express positions and interests of NMS and CC

• Constant dialogue among ALL relevant stakeholders in each NMS


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Thank you for attention !Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf – Ecologic

[email protected]

Andrzej Kassenberg – Institute for Sustainable Development

[email protected]

More about project you can find on:

http://www.ecologic-events.de/climate2012/en/index.htm


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