From 3 to 14 December, the world will look to Katowice for the next world climate summit. The city in southern Poland is one of the country's coal strongholds, where the electricity mix is still dominated by fossil fuels. However, in the run-up to the summit, the Polish government is now surprisingly making some concessions towards the EU.
It was only in September that Polish Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski took a cautious first step towards the unpopular EU: he announced his intention to reduce the share of coal in the country's energy mix to 50 percent by 2050 (