Warsaw UN Climate Meeting :Polish environment minister fired
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Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed Environment Minister Marcin Korolec today as UN climate talks proceed in Warsaw. Mr Korolec was seem to be slow about radical acceleration of shale gas operations.
The timing of the reshuffle of the cabinet indicated that Poland was not interested in ensuring tougher global action to combat global warming.
Changing the minister leading the climate negotiations after a race to the bottom by parties of the convention shows Prime Minister Tusk is not sincere about the need for an ambitious climate deal. Just two days back Poland parallel to UN Climate talk hosted a conference to promote coal earlier this week.
The country, which generates 90 percent of its electricity from coal, has been one of the most reluctant European Union members to toughen the existing goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
The environment ministry under Korolec was criticized by the private sector for hampering work on new shale gas legislation, which, together with red tape and poor results, forced a number of global players to quit Poland.
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