Environmental audits planned in Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
10.02.2017 14:18
Audits will be conducted in Poland to test air quality and the wellbeing of animals, Poland's Supreme Audit Office and the European Court of Auditors announced on Friday.
Bild: Flickr.com/Krzysztof Ruzikowski
The head of the Office said Poland has a particular problem with air quality, while the country's representative in the European court noted that each year, some 50,000 die in Poland due to complications related to air pollution.
In 2016, some eight percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions in the Europe Union were produced in Poland, the PAP news agency reported.
Meanwhile, testing of the wellbeing of animals may prove significant, ahead of a revision of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy, with is due for an update in 2020.
The studies will be launched this year, and reports are expected to be released in 2018.
In early January, The Financial Times said that coal burning makes Poland “Europe’s capital of smog.”
According to the paper, in one city in southern Poland in December, the air was more polluted than in Beijing.
What’s more, 33 out of the 50 most polluted cities in Europe are in Poland, the paper added.
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Source: PAP