The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management has announced the launch of a program supporting actions against disinformation in the field of ecology. The head of government has decided to allocate as much as 10 million PLN for this purpose! It is not only the bizarre costs burdening taxpayers that are sparking controversy. Very legitimate questions also arise: who will decide which information is false and which is reliable? And that is not all – public funds may, in fact, serve to promote a chosen political narrative in the area of ecology.
The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management announced the launch of a program to support actions against disinformation in ecology. Tusk’s government has allocated 10 million PLN for this initiative, with applications opening in October.
The program is aimed at non-governmental organizations and is intended to finance educational and training activities which, according to the Fund, are to “counteract ecological disinformation through active education and training” for opinion leaders, educators, and journalists.
The allocation of such significant funds to fight climate disinformation is shocking. The question arises: who will decide which content is “disinformation” and which constitutes genuine knowledge? Concerns are also mounting that public resources may, in practice, be used to promote a specific political narrative in the ecological sphere.
On the international stage, the issue of so-called climate disinformation is becoming increasingly relevant. During the United Nations General Assembly in 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump described the narrative about the need to reshape people’s lives due to climate change as “the greatest fraud ever perpetrated in the world.”