This year’s SITE Development Day conference will focus on environmental policy in Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on global warming, energy transformation, and energy security.

An increased awareness and sense of emergency around the challenge of global warming is reflected in events such as the UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021 (Cop26). Yet, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other experts have highlighted that the current commitments made by governments around the globe to reduce their carbon footprint fall far short of the goal of an increase in the temperature no more than 1.5, and even 2 degrees. Current policies and planned future investment plans suggest that not even these commitments will be met in most countries, creating a twin challenge in formulating more ambitious goals, and making sure to credibly commit to them. The fact that some world leaders have decided not to attend the Cop26 conference, including the Russian president, is therefore quite disheartening.

At 13;30, Paweł Wróbel, Founder and Managing Director of BalticWind.EU, will speak on Energy Transformation in Poland at the “How the European Green Deal accelerates the transition of the Polish energy sector” panel.