Fossil of the Day: Poland

Every day during the United Nations climate change negotiations, members of the worldwide environmental network, the Climate Action Network, vote for the country deemed to have made the worst input or have made efforts to blog progress at the negotiations.

Today's fossil award went surprisingly to the host country - Poland.

"Poland made history today by winning the sole Fossil Award - the first time ever that a host country has won a Fossil on the first day of COP," explained members of Climate Action Network, which was co-presented the award with members of the Canadian Youth Delegation.

In his speech today, Prime Minister Donald Tusk made a call for global solidarity on climate change. However Poland has been undermining the plan of 100% auctioning of pollution permits by cutting a loophole for coal-dependent countries (like Poland) and putting a price ceiling into the cap and trade system.

According to the presenters, Poland is also backtracking on the EU agreement to agree on a target of 30% reduction emissions by 2020.