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Summit discussions begin Monday. Delegations from 195 countries will visit Katowice, which signed the Paris Agreement in 2015. Its goal is to put an end to the rise in global temperature so that the world can escape the climate catastrophe that threatens us because of greenhouse gas emissions of up to 80%. to burn fossil fuels. At the same time, the summit elected by the PiS government is among the main emitters of carbon dioxide, methane, sulfur oxides, nitrogen and carcinogenic benzene in Poland. These are Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa, Tauron, Polska Grupa Energetyczna and PGNiG.
Among the partners, the biggest polluter of Europe
Only the Jaworzno plant belonging to the Tauron group releases 6 million tonnes of CO2 per year into the atmosphere. Power station Łaziska (also Tauron) – 4 million tons of CO2. This is not much compared to the biggest polluter in Europe: the Bełchatów power station belonging to PGE, which also connects the summit and emits at the same time nearly 40 million tons of carbon dioxide and 3 tons of mercury a year. Two years ago, the report "Dark Cloud Europe" alarmed the fact that Bełchatów contributes to nearly 1,200 people a year. premature death.
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