We are approaching the end of the FCO's financial year, which means speeding up the work on some of the projects. Every day brings new challenges and new experience. Our activities require preparation and time, and there is always too little of the latter...
Last week, the Public Opinion Research Centre CBOS, and the British Embassy, agreed the final version of the questionnaire to poll the Polish public about climate change perception. As it usually happens with this type of projects, choosing the right wording for the questions and all the consultations that involved, required a lot of commitment on the part of th
e Energy and Climate Team, the Embassy’s Press and Communications Section as well as CBOS, which had won the project delivery competition. It was important to us that in the poll, the climate issues should be treated in a comprehensive way and the views shared by the respondents should be as close to the reality as possible. The CBOS pollsters are already in the field with the questionnaires and we can’t wait to see the survey results!
A few days ago, I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Tom Corcut, economic advisor and the Head of the Carbon Emissions Trading Team at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. Tom came to Poland for the launch of a UKIE [Polish Office of the Committee for European Integration] project, Impact Assessment for Poland of the EU ETS Directive. The project is implemented with the support of demosEuropa and the British Embassy and co-funded from the UK FCO programme supporting low carbon economy - Strategic Programme Fund Low Carbon High Growth (SPF LCHG). Tom Corcut gave a presentation on Impact Assessment for ETS Directive in the UK and answered questions from Polish experts interested in using the British methodology in preparing the Impact Assessment for Poland. It was the first of a series of consultation meetings planned under the project, so I believe I will soon be able to write more about the progress of the works. 
Our list of tasks for the nearest future includes a semi-annual report on projects implementation, work on another set of project proposals which we will present to SPF LCHG next week. On top of that, there will be some new events to coordinate in the coming weeks. There is no time for boredom in the Climate and Energy Team!
Posted at 15:13 13 March 2009 by Agnieszka Tomaszewska | Comments[0]
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