When opening the event, Minister Michał Kurtyka recalled that in 2018, during COP24 in Katowice, countries representing more than half of humanity signed the Driving Change Together declaration, initiated by Poland and the United Kingdom.

Today’s meeting within the Global e-Mobility Forum is part of the operationalisation of this declaration, he stressed.

Minister Kurtyka also pointed out that in order to develop electromobility, we need to create a friendly environment in which individual entities from the fields of administration, business and science will cooperate with each other and support each other’s activities.

We are all the more pleased that there are new countries joining the existing signatories of the Driving Change Together. The declaration has recently been signed by Romania and the Netherlands and today we are joined by Switzerland. This is great news for the development of electromobility, which is a permanent element of the global climate policy, he informed.

Global e-Mobility Forum in Poland was organised by the National Climate Change Centre (IOŚ-PIB), in cooperation with the Polish Alternative Fuels Association under the patronage of the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

GEF2020 was a high-level meeting. The event was attended by speakers from around the world, including: Adina Vălean, European Commissioner for Transport, Nadim Zahawi, Minister for Business and Industry of the Great Britain, Vladyslav Kryklii, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Yasmin Fouad, Minister of the Environment of Egypt, Ovais Sarmad, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Poland, who hosted the Global e-Mobility Forum 2020 - was represented by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Minister of Climate and Environment Michał Kurtyka.