Poland announced that it will back the EU ratification of an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions, but only if the European Commission finances new, cleaner coal-fired power stations.

As reported by the Reuters news agency, the EU needs unanimous backing from all member states in order to ratify the amendment. Last year, Poland vetoed 2012’s Doha amendment to extend the protocol until 2020 saying it needed more time to analyse its impact on the economy.

Signed in 1997, the K...