On 18 February, Julia Szulecka and Kacper Szulecki presented a paper entitled “A Climate Skeptical Mitigation Policy? Explaining Poland’s Carbon Forestry Two-Level Game” at the international workshop “Anatomy of Disbelief – Analysing Climate Scepticism” hosted by the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. After 2015, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, most notably the environment minister Jan […]
Introducing the Forest Monitor: A great source of knowledge on Polish, European and international forestry
We would like to draw your attention to a very interesting English-language forestry blog: the Forest Monitor, established by Dr. Rafał Chudy (currently a Senior Analyst at New Forests, Sydney). The “first blog for forest geeks” covers a wide range of forestry-related topics, from political economy, forests’ role in climate policy all the way to the […]
Energy Security in Europe: new edited book published by Palgrave!
The book, edited by Dr. Kacper Szulecki, is the final output of the project financed by the German-Polish Science Foundation (grant No. 2014-15) lead by Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, with ESPRi’s participation. This edited collection highlights the different meanings that have been attached to the notion of energy security and […]
Julia Szulecka’s guest column on carbon forestry in Poland’s popular watchdog daily
Poland is seen as a climate policy laggard and has recently been under a lot of international pressure due to the continued logging of the precious Bialowieza Forest. Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment boasts about the country’s uniquely sustainable forestry practices and introduces Forest Carbon Farms as an innovative tool for climate change mitigation. In […]
A two-year research project on energy security comes to an end
ESPRi Policy Paper No 2 entitled “Towards a common EU energy policy? Debates on energy security in Poland and Germany” marks the end of a two-year-long research project financed by the German-Polish Science Foundation (grant No. 2014-15) . Lead by Prof. Heiko Pleines Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, the […]
Renesans czy zmierzch atomu? Analiza światowych i europejskich trendów oraz ich znaczenia dla polskiego programu jądrowego
Autor: Kacper Szulecki, ESPRi Report nr 2, czerwiec 2015 Czy rzeczywiście mamy do czynienia z „renesansem nuklearnym”? Jaka jest rola energetyki ją-drowej w światowej polityce energetycznej i klimatycznej? Wreszcie, czy faktycznie energia jądrowa jest „tania” tak jak sugeruje polski rząd? Niniejszy raport przedstawia stan badań na temat globalnej ekonomii politycznej sektora atomowego, dodając światowy i […]
New monograph of Poland’s anti-nuclear protests
The late 1980s were the heyday of Poland’s environmental protest movement. A new monograph co-authored by the late Tomasz Borewicz, Janusz Waluszko (both leaders of the 1980s protests) and ESPRi’s Kacper Szulecki, gathers archival material and rich oral history of the movement which shook Communist Poland. This empirically rich monograph shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe […]
Does Local Energy Mean Renewable? Report from a Survey on the Acceptance for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources Among Polish Local Authorities
Authors: Andrzej Ancygier and Kacper Szulecki, ESPRi Report no. 1 (English version), June 2014 The report summarizes the results of a survey conducted among local authorities in Poland in late 2013. The survey has shown very high support for the development of renewable sources of energy at the local level and low acceptance for coal […]
Energia lokalna – czyli odnawialna? Raport z badania akceptacji dla odnawialnych źródeł energii i perspektywy dla ich rozwoju w polskich gminach
Authors: Andrzej Ancygier i Kacper Szulecki, ESPRi Report nr. 1 (wersja polska), grzudzień 2013 Polska energetyka stoi na rozdrożu. Już dziś wiemy, że po 2015 roku, kiedy wyłączone zosta‐ ną najstarsze i najmniej efektywne bloki węglowe, będziemy musieli zmierzyć się z niedo‐ statkiem mocy. Jednak strategia rządu wobec sektora energetycznego jest wciąż niejasna. Czy Polska […]
Comparing the EU Emissions Trading System and the US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Is There Compatibility Across the Ocean?
Author: Paweł Pustelnik, ESPRi Working Paper no. 3, May 2013 The main aim of this article is to analyze compatibilities for linking of two independent emissions trading schemes: European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Given the fact that both schemes are based on a cap-and-trade principle, they offer […]