The issues addressed at the EU Environment Council meeting held on 25 March 2024 in Brussels included the Waste Framework Directive, the reduction of microplastic pollution, an exchange of views on the 2040 EU climate target and a just transition. Mr. Krzysztof Bolesta, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment, participated in the meeting.

On 22 March 2024, the experts of the World Heritage Centre (WHC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) completed their Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Polish part of the Białowieża Forest World Heritage Site.

Poland and Austria are working together to safeguard energy security in Europe. On 15 March 2024, Mrs. Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Climate and Energy, met with Mr. Andreas Stadler, Ambassador of Austria to Poland.

The cooperation with Ukraine in the energy sector was one of the topics addressed during the 9th plenary session of the Polish-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation in which Mr. Miłosz Motyka, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment, participated on 11 March 2024 in Lviv.

We invite you to participate in the consultations which will help work out the position of the Government of the Republic of Poland on the Communication from the European Commission to the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Securing our future Europe’s 2040 target and path to climate neutrality by 2050 building a sustainable, just and prosperous society (COM/2024/63 final).

The National Energy and Climate Plan (KPEiK) is a document of key importance for both the Polish energy sector and other sectors of the Polish economy. Poland has prepared the preliminary version of an update of the KPEiK, which was submitted to the European Commission on 1 March 2024. Soon wide consultations on the draft will begin.

The main issues addressed at the EU Energy Council meeting held on 4 March 2024 in Brussels included energy security, gas regulations and the flexibility of the power grid. Mrs. Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Climate and Energy, took part in the event.

‘People must be at the centre of the green transition. We will not implement the transition without public acceptance of this process,’ Mr. Krzysztof Bolesta, Deputy Mister of Climate and Environment, stressed on the second day of the jubilee meeting of the International Energy Agency. The Ministerial Dialogue, in which Deputy Minister Miłosz Motyka also participated, was held on 14 February 2024 in Paris.

A just transition, adaptation to climate change and the circular economy were the main topics addressed in the course of the Informal Meeting of the EU Environment Ministers. Ms. Urszula Zielińska and Ms. Anita Sowińska, Deputy Ministers of Climate and Environment, participated in the meeting held on 15-16 January 2024 in Brussels.

The Ministry of Climate and Environment is limiting the logging foreseen for 2024 in Poland's most important forests. The protection of valuable primaeval forests, the preservation of woods used by agglomerations of many thousands of people, spa forests and the scarcity of forestry districts are the main reasons for the reduction in logging. Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska announced the details of the decision at a press conference held on 8 January 2024 in Warsaw.