Category Archives: European Union

Article on waste and resources policy in Germany and Poland

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bildPublished in Biuletyn Niemiecki 29.08.2013, nr 39.

Europejskie spoleczenstwo zapobiegania odpadom i odzysku surowcow: doswiadczenia z Niemiec, wyzwania dla Polski

Coraz mniej odpadow komunalnych – choc nie wszedzie

Wedlug danych Eurostatu w 2011 r. ilosc wytworzonych odpadow komunalnych w Unii Europejskiej (UE) czwarty rok z rzedu byla nizsza od roku poprzedniego i wyniosla 253,1 mln ton. Jest to o ok. 1,3 mln ton mniej niz w 2007 r., ktory byl rokiem rekordowym. Przecietny mieszkaniec UE wytworzyl‚ w 2011 r. 503 kg odpadow. W Polsce ilosc wytworzonych odpadow komunalnych w 2011 r. wzrosla w porownaniu z 2010 r. z ok. 12,04 do ok. 12,13 mln ton. W 2011 r. przecietny mieszkaniec Polski wytworzyl okolo 315 kg odpadow komunalnych.

Wyzwaniem jest jednak nie tylko ilosc odpadow, ale rowniez metody postepowania z nimi. Obecnie ponad polowa odpadow (ok. 57%) jest albo spalana, rowniez do celow energetycznych, albo skladowana na wysypiskach smieci, reszta jest poddawana roznego rodzaju procesom odzysku. W Polsce ponad 70% odpadow jest skladowanych, 1% jest spalany, a jedynie ok. 11% jest poddawanych recyklingowi. Pod koniec 2011 r. funkcjonowalo w Polsce 578 kontrolowanych skladowisk przyjmujacych odpady komunalne, jednak rownolegle dzialalo az 2539 wysypisk dzikich. Skladowanie odpadow w jakiejkolwiek formie wiaze sie jednak z negatywnym wplywem na srodowisko oraz zdrowie i jakosc zycia czlowieka poprzez zanieczyszczenie powietrza, wody i gleby, a takze emisje metanu.

Presentation from Greenpower 2013 available online

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The power-point presentation that I prepared for the I Forum “Photovoltaic for all” in Poznan on 13 May during the International Renewable Energy Fair Greenpower 2013 is available online on the website of Czysta Energia.

Here you may read a short relation and see some pictures documenting the whole event.

Interview on German energy transition

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The interview published originally on the website of Zielone Wiadomosci was printed in the paper version of the magazine (nr. 14 March – April 2013), which is devoted to energy and climate policy issues. The magazine in pdf can be downloaded from the website of Zielone Wiadomosci.

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Book chapter on Poland’s climate change policy struggle

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My book chapter “Poland’s climate change policy struggle: Greening the East?” was published in: Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel, James Connelly (ed.) (2011), The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, p. 163 – 178.

About the book in: Preface and acknowledgements by Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel and James Connelly:

Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate change politics although it was originally set up as a “leaderless Europe” in which decision-making powers are spread amongst EU institutional, member state and societal actors.

The central aim of this book, which is written by leading experts in the field, is to explain what kind of leadership has been offered by EU institutional, member state and societal actors. Although leadership is the overarching theme of the book, all chapters also address ecological modernisation, policy instruments, and multi-level governance as additional main themes. The book chapters focus on the Commission, European Parliament, European Council and Council of Ministers as well as member states (Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain) and societal actors (businesses and environmental NGOs). Additional chapters analyse the EU as a global actor and the climate change policies of America and China and how they have responded to the EU’s ambitions.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, EU politics, comparative politics and international relations as well as to practitioners who deal with EU and/or climate change issues.