Poland blocks EU’s zero-carbon plan

EurActiv reported that with European delegates preparing to push a low-carbon agenda at the Rio Earth Summit in June 2012, coal-reliant Poland had prevented EU governments from speaking with a single voice in the bloc's debate on a low-carbon energy future.

At a meeting in Luxembourg on 15 June 2012, EU energy ministers debated an energy 2050 road map published by the bloc's executive in December, which sets out the route towards almost zero carbon power generation by the middle of the century.

• Primary Source

Reuters, 12.6.12: Poland fights carbon cuts in EU again -draft http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/eu-energy-council-idUKL5E8HCJRR20120612

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