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This article is part of our special report Poland’s energy transition.
Tensions have mounted at the Polish, Czech and German border over a coal mine in Poland that Prague says is contaminating its water supplies and has been operating illegally for over a year.
In a rare move for an EU country, the Czech Republic took Poland before the European Court of Justice in February this year for extending a mining concession for an open-pit coal mine near Turów, a Polish village just over the border.
The Czech Republic said Warsaw had violated the EU’s Environmental Impact Assessment Directive which requires transboundary consultation, and the principle of cooperation enshrined in the EU Treaty.
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How politically realistic are the climate action goals that European governments are setting in lockstep with the United States?
Some analysts are warning that the rich can afford the necessary changes, but the burdensome costs of a green transition for middle-class and poorer voters could trigger a backlash and prompt electoral reversals.
Others worry European governments have still not fleshed out in practical terms how to meet their ambitious climate action and emissions reduction goals and that a failure to deliver solutions, as happened after the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, risks undermining an emerging public consensus about the danger of climate change and a recognition action is required.
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Since she took office in December 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been talking big about climate change, saying global warming is “an existential crisis” and dubbing the European Green Deal as “Europe’s man on the moon moment”.
That EU leaders are finally addressing climate change is a welcome development. But it also creates expectations. What if Europe fails to deliver? What if the transition to a green economy creates social and economic disparities within the EU?
This article is part of our special report Poland’s energy transition.
European trade unions welcome ambitious EU climate policies, but warn that they need to be implemented alongside an equally ambitious social transition plan or risk sowing the seeds of a backlash, says Judith Kirton-Darling.
Judith Kirton-Darling is Deputy General Secretary of IndustriALL Europe, an international trade union federation.
The coal phase-out in Europe is gathering pace, many countries are pushing forward their coal exit dates. Overall, how is Europe faring when it comes to managing the social fallout of the coal phase-out, both at EU and national level?