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After years of resisting certain European Union climate policies
under the previous nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party,
Poland's October 2023 election has marked a shift in Warsaw's
stance on fighting climate change.
Centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk's new pro-European
government is planning to formally withdraw its ongoing legal
challenges against some of the EU's main climate change policies
at the EU's top court, government and EU sources told Reuters.
Poland's previous government had brought lawsuits to the EU's
top court including four cases last year attempting to annul EU
climate policies: a law banning new CO2-emitting car sales from
2035, an EU policy setting national emissions-cutting targets,
changes to the EU's carbon market and goals to protect forests
so they can store more carbon.
The sources said the Tusk government intends to cancel the court
cases and is coordinating a decision between the government
ministries involved.
Tusk's office did not respond to a request for comment. Poland's
climate ministry did not have an immediate comment.
The government has already signalled plans to change some
national climate policies, to replace coal with renewable energy
faster, and said that any changes would include support for
affected workers and industries.
(Reporting by Kate Abnett, Marek Strzelecki; Editing by Gareth
Jones)
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