(CNN)There’s a certain irony that when world leaders meet in early December at the COP24 global climate conference, they will be doing so in the heart of Poland’s coal country.
The host city of Katowice is in the center of Silesia, a region that is home to about 90,000 coal workers — around half of all the coal workers in the EU.
Coal is hugely important for Poland. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently referred to it as “our black gold.”
