Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland

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auberopoleThreads: 1 Posts: 8 Joined: Nov 21, 09 ♂	Nov 21, 09, 19:39 #1
Hi all, Any ideas what the market is like for sustainability, carbon management or environmental management organizations in Poland? I'm curious about both NGOs and consultancies, if possible in Krakow. I did a basic Google search and found nothing, but that's probably because I searched it in English. Thanks guys!

BzibziohThreads: 6 Posts: 3,657 Joined: Oct 15, 08 ♀ [Suspended]	Nov 21, 09, 19:46 #2
Bit naive to be looking for a not-English teaching-job in Poland without speaking any Polish and without any local professional credentials, don't you think?

auberopoleThreads: 1 Posts: 8 Joined: Nov 21, 09 ♂	Nov 21, 09, 19:58 #3
Bzibzioh I don't know anything about Poland yet, my partner was selected for an expat job only last week. So I was looking for some relevant advice.

BzibziohThreads: 6 Posts: 3,657 Joined: Oct 15, 08 ♀ [Suspended]	Nov 21, 09, 20:22 #4
auberopole: So I was looking for some relevant advice. The only REAL option is teaching English.

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Edited by: delphiandomine Nov 21, 09, 20:51 #5

auberopole:

I don't know anything about Poland yet, my partner was selected for an expat job only last week. So I was looking for some relevant advice.

The truth is that the vast majority of these jobs go to people that are connected. Virtually every expat in Poland either started out teaching English or was placed here by a company, or they had connections with people who got them the job.

My company can use our connections to investigate the market for you and to promote you in the right circles - http://www.lindenia.net :)

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Nov 21, 09, 23:38 #6

Thanks for the inputs on the jobs side, appreciate it. I'm not purely interested for jobs though. I'd prefer to steer away from a jobs discussion, as I've seen many job related questions on these boards already and I figure the answers are much the same!

I will be more specific...

To what extent do companies talk about energy efficiency, carbon emissions and environmental management? How is the market in corporate sustainability management in Poland?
How big of an issue is climate change at political level? What kind of policies are in place or coming in (e.g. COP-15 stance, cap-and-trade, etc.)?
What do the NGOs in environmental issues do, and are there many? Is it a small market or a large market, do they have trouble getting attention or trouble managing their huge workloads!?
Are Polish citizens aware of their carbon footprints, aware of what they can do to reduce it and care to do something about it?

In other words, how established is Poland in going green...

KPrzybyszThreads: - Posts: 5 Joined: Nov 22, 09 ♀	Nov 22, 09, 05:05 #7
You bring up some very interesting points. I've been interested in this as well. I wish I had answers for you but, unfortunately I do not. I would recommend having a Polish friend do some word searches on the internet. There must be articles, publications, of some sort. Good luck and post your findings.

auberopoleThreads: 1 Posts: 8 Joined: Nov 21, 09 ♂	Nov 26, 09, 14:42 #8
KPrzybysz: I would recommend having a Polish friend do some word searches on the internet. There must be articles, publications, of some sort. Thanks KPrzybysz. I'll do that and I'll post my findings here too. But to perhaps be more efficient, is there anyone here who has done that already? Or anyone willing to?

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Jan 5, 10, 01:12 #9

Poland is not an energy efficient country, we as a nation do not care much for our carbon footprint and I don't think it's gonna change very quick. Poles care when it comes to the business that they can make money on it ( like wind farms recently- that's the topic you can ask me anything about). the same is with the political level- when it's about money we are environmental fiendly, when it's about fees- we cutting down carbon emissions. Not often people recycle rubbish or save water or energy, it's sad but I would say that if they do it's more for a money saving reasons than environment. Climate change and environment are just slogans nowadays, behind which ones companies make huge money not a plan for saving our planet.
I would like to see it changes, I guess young people and children are more aware and can see bigger picture better than older generation. What is a hope for the country where over 80% energy produced comes from heavy old coal industrial plants? We try to participate in Clean Development Mechanisms but we simply can not afford it. The only reason we build wind farms are subsidies and prize for green certificates which make them profitable. The only reason we have just few biogas stations here while our neighbours- Germany have hundreds its a lack of subsidies and regulations.

Anyway, I don't know which country you come from, I assume is UK? I had lived there for few years ( and studied sustainable energy systems :) ) and I noticed how much people are sensitive about switching off tv over night, using more bikes than cars, stop buying food in plastic, getting more local products than ones from overseas. It will not have much chance to happen in Poland because the situation here never got to such a bad state than in reacher countries, we always tried to do all the above things,just for the different reasons!

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