Warsaw Clean Air Programme

Full electrification of local bus transportation, including charging, maintenance, and possibly assembly and production capacity.

There are over 15 solid-fuel boilers around the city of Warsaw, polluting its air, particularly in winter. In 2018, Mayor Trzaskowski adopted an ambitious programme of tackling air pollution. Removal of coal stoves from the city housing sector was set up as a key priority.

Following the Mayor's proposal, the City Council approved a three-year budget of €68 million for subsidies to citizens willing to exchange their obsolete sources of heating for ecological ones. They may be combined with co-financing for renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic installations, solar thermal collectors or wind turbines. The city finances up to 100% of the investment costs.

On top of that, the city of Warsaw implements a complex air quality monitoring system. Two new advanced monitoring stations (on top of five existing ones) will be installed together with 170 sensors around the city and neighbouring municipalities. The system, co-financed by the EU Regional Funds, will be operational from the beginning of 2021. Warsaw citizens will have access to up-to-date online information about the levels of pollution, based on the Air Quality Index and the city authorities will gain an innovative tool of air quality management, with the possibility to define the exact sources of pollution.