Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. Slowing Earth’s warming is a global problem, that cannot be solved without a fair cooperation all major economies. This challenge was taken up by the European Union, that for several years has clearly accelerated actions in the field of energy and preventing climate change. The European Green Deal is another of the EU “grand projects”, the implementation of which will have extremely significant consequences for the economies and social life of the EU inhabitants. Due to its enormous economic and social importance, European Green Deal is also a project with very far-reaching political implications. The consequences of the reforms that make up the European Green Deal for individual states result, inter alia, from the starting point of meeting the demand for energy, i.e. the energy mix of a given country. In several very important aspects, Poland is a specific case in this context. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to identify and briefly analyze the most important challenges – economic, social and political – resulting from the implementation of the European Green Deal, discussed on the example of Poland. The starting point will be a short presentation of the most important goals/assumptions of the European Green Deal. Then, the Polish energy mix are outlined, compared to other EU states. On this basis, the most important problems and challenges related to the implementation of the European Green Deal are identified.