The climate protection is undoubtedly one of the most important areas of the contemporary world. The global warming is an unquestionable fact. The problem is the answer to the question what is the cause of this situation. Is it caused by the human activity or by the natural variability? The suggested positions concerning this issue are often quite different. The global actions that have been undertaken for decades have to be coordinated, so as dealing with one threat they managed to avoid causing another one, such as impoverishment of society. The newly introduced ways of dealing with the climate should include in their assumptions an even distribution of the responsibility between the highly developed countries and those just entering the path of modern development. That is of great significance to Poland, where the production of electricity and heat is mostly based on coal. That is why the issue concerning the climate protection and especially the costs connected with the reduction of greenhouse gases emission, acquire the priority significance. Imposing excessive costs on the society may lead to the pauperization of people and by the feedback it may even worsen the general economic balance.