Poland may have balked at the last minute at supporting an EU plan to completely decarbonize by 2050 last month, but the European Commission is still honoring its end of a deal meant to get Warsaw and other reluctant Eastern European capitals on board.
Today the Commission unveiled a Just Transition Mechanism designed, among other things, to help those regions dependent on coal to find new areas of economic activity to replace mining. It will mobilize at least €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion).
