CECILIA2050 Country Report: Poland

This country level report is part of report series that has the objective to perform an initial ‘stock-take’ of the climate policy instrument mix at EU and Member State level. In line with the other reports of the series, this report groups the existing policies in Poland into four main categories, or policy landscapes: carbon pricing, energy efficiency, renewable energy and non-CO2 gases.

In the different chapters of the report the respective instruments of each policy landscape are described in detail and their interactions within each of the policy landscapes are identified. In a next step, the policy landscapes are evaluated using a specific definition of what constitutes optimal climate policy, which was developed in a previous CECILIA2050 report (What constitutes an optimal climate policy mix? Defining the concept of optimality, including political and legal framework conditions). In addition, the report also evaluates how the four different policy landscapes interact with each other.

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Citation: 

Żylicz, Tomasz. 2013. Country report: Poland. Contribution to CECILIA2050 Deliverable 1.2: Review of the existing instrument mix at EU level and in selected Member States. Warsaw: University of Warsaw.

Funding: 

European Commission

Authors: 

Tomasz Żylicz, University of Warsaw

Year of publication: 

2013

Number of pages: 

42

Table of contents: 

0

Executive summary

5

1

Description of policy landscapes

5

1.1

Classification of the instruments previously selected into policy landscapes

5

1.2

Detailed description of instruments within each policy landscape

8

1.2.1

Carbon Pricing

8

1.2.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

11

1.2.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

12

1.2.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide GHGs

15

1.3

Identification of interactions of instruments within each policy landscape

16

1.3.1

Carbon Pricing

16

1.3.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

17

1.3.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

17

1.3.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide GHGs

18

1.4

Description and evaluation of policy landscapes in the light of the concept of optimality developed in task 1.1

19

1.4.1

Carbon Pricing

19

1.4.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

20

1.4.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

21

1.4.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide GHGs

22

2

Description and initial evaluation of the overall instrument mix

22

2.1

Identification and description of the main interactions between policy landscapes

22

2.2

Summary discussion of the combination of policy landscapes (the overall instrument mix) against each one of the elements of the concept of optimality

24

3

Conclusions

25

4

References

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