Paris is holding the UN conference regarding climate change (COP 21). Its main aim is to reduce greenhouse gases’ emission (mainly CO₂) and slow down global climate changes which require limiting dependence on fossil fuels, mostly coal.

Poland is the biggest hard coal producer in the EU and nowadays coal is the main energy resource in the country. Regardless of that fact, the majority of the Poles (61%) think that Poland should gradually move away from coal-based energy production and develop other ways of producing energy. The idea that in the next 20–30 years energy in Poland should be produced mainly from national coal resources is supported by one in three interviewees (30%).

More on that issue can be found in the CBOS report in Polish “What's Next for Polish Black Coal Mining”.