The European Commission has started a nationwide campaign in Poland under the motto: your actions affect the climate. The aim is to make people aware that by taking simple steps they can slow down climate change.

Report by Krystyna Kolosowska.

It is telling Poles that their fight against climate change can and should start at home. Its ecological installation, which looks like a room in a typical Polish home, is shown in Poland’s biggest cities in the run-up to the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference, which will be held in the mid-western city of Poznan between the 1st and 12th of December. Karolina Swietlik from the European Commission Representation in Warsaw says this is also in response to the fact that some 90 percent of Poles are concerned about the climate change.

This is the message of an outdoor campaign in the form of billboards and city lights mounted in five major cities, including Warsaw and Poznan . There are also happenings in shopping malls.

The simple steps that everybody can take to save the climate are – using energy saving light bulbs, or lowering the heating temperature at home, using public transport or a bicycle instead of a car and so on. The well-known Polish boxer Przemyslaw Saleta is the ambassador of the campaign.

‘This is also a way to save money. We do not realize how much of our money goes down the drain every year when we fail to go green’, he says.

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