Community action/Poland

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Poland.

Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.

Folkemødet på Bornholm

Authors: Destination Bornholm, 1.07 mins.

Date: 2019-02-04

We Are The Coalition To Keep Berkeley Money Local

Authors: Coalition to Keep Berkeley Money Local, 2.07 mins.

Date: 2026-04-20

The Power of Cycling, Official Launch Trailer

Authors: European Cyclists' Federation and Content With Purpose, 2.38 mins.

Date: 2029-09-17

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Global or International events

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

In Focus... Warsaw, C40’s Global Green New Deal Pilot

Authors: C40 Cities, 2.32 mins.

Date: 2022-12-05

City, The Common Task - Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons Teaser (Poland Medialab)

Authors: Doc Next Network, 1.31 mins.

Date: 2016-01-01

• Sustainable energy: Interactive map of #solar installations we've done this year: Instalacje OZE Greenpeace, Greenpeace Polska

From Wikipedia:Solar power in Poland

Solar energy in Poland is a rapidly growing sector of the country's renewable energy industry, driven by falling technology costs, government incentives, and increasing public interest in sustainable energy. Solar power is key to the Polish government's plan to produce 75% of electricity from carbon-free sources (renewables and nuclear) by 2040. As of May 31, 2026, Poland had a total of 26,871 MW in solar power grid-connected capacity.

In numbers:

From Wikipedia:Wind power in Poland

Wind power is a growing source of electricity in Poland. In 2019, wind was the second most important source of electricity produced in Poland, after coal, accounting for about 10% of the electricity production. The total wind power grid-connected capacity in Poland was 10,602 MW as of 2025.

As of November 2019, 4 local groups, see Map of climate assemblies, climateassemblies.org

• studentbikesinternational.com

Poland: Opening the heart of the city

In the heart of Warsaw, tucked away in the lush green tangles where John Lennon Street meets Jazdów, lies a community of small rural houses. Established by the USSR in 1945 as a part of Finnish war reparations, they form an enticing island of tranquility in the capital's urban landscape, and a living monument to the city's 20th century history. Yet in recent years, city officials have decided that they would rather replace this area with the glass skyscrapers so typical of large city centres. In response to this, social activists responded by organising Otwarty Jazdów (Open Jazdów), a grassroots initiative that includes current and former Jazdów residents, community organizations, local activists and young politicians trying to stop the demolition of the houses by promoting Jazdow as a common space for the city's inhabitants. It is a process that is similar to what activists are doing in the neglected, formerly industrial Ursus district. Starting in 2012, people in this district have been organising actions that criticise the urban decay it has been subjected to, informing the public of residents' unmet needs and promoting the district's history through the bottom-up creation of a Social Museum. As each of these campaigns uses the institutional and grassroots tools at their disposal in their disputes with city officials, Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons will help amplify their message so that they can achieve their goals.^[1]

ClairCity, Eu project about air pollution and CO2 emissions in cities, putting the power in the hands of residents to determine the best local solutions.

International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside

From Wikipedia:Forests of Poland

Forests cover an estimated 29.3% of Poland's territory, and are mostly owned by the state, and are increasing at a fast rate, by 2030 Polish forest percentage is to be 33%. Western and northern parts of Poland as well as the Carpathian Mountains in the extreme south, are much more forested than eastern and central provinces. The most forested administrative districts of the country are: Lubusz Voivodeship (49,5%), Subcarpathian Voivodeship (38,4%), and West Pomeranian Voivodeship (35,9%). The least forested are: Łódź Voivodeship (21,4%), Masovian Voivodeship (23,4%), and Lublin Voivodeship (23,5%).

Campaigns: STOP destruction of the Białowieza Forest!

Ecoregions in Poland

Poland has a humid temperate climate, and falls within two terrestrial biomes, temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and temperate coniferous forests.

Most of Poland's natural vegetation is deciduous woodlands of the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome. Poland has three temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregions:

• The Central European mixed forests ecoregion covers the largest portion of Poland, spanning from Lithuania to Romania, and from Germany to western Russia.
• Northwestern Poland is in the Baltic mixed forests ecoregion, which also includes the Baltic Sea coastal regions of northeastern Germany, eastern Denmark, and southern Sweden.
• The Western European broadleaf forests ecoregion extends into southwestern Poland (PA0445), covering the Polish portion of the Sudetes mountains.

The southeastern portion of Poland, lying in the Carpathian Mountains, is within the Carpathian montane conifer forests ecoregion, part of the temperate coniferous forests biome. ^W

From Wikipedia:Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, and borders Lithuania and Russia to the northeast; Belarus and Ukraine to the east; Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south; and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 37 million people, and the fifth largest EU country by land area, covering 312,696 km² (120,733 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk.

External links

Wikipedia: The World Wide Fund for Nature in Poland