'We must be cautious and effectively identify and eliminate all potential threats to energy security. Resilience against sabotage of critical infrastructure is currently one of the priority issues, also in Poland,' said Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Miłosz Motyka during the conference 'The Baltic Sea High Level Energy Security Meeting.'

Everyone cares that Poland's first nuclear power plant is built on time - this is what Paulina Hennig-Kloska discussed with Patrick Fragman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Westinghouse Electric Company, the supplier of US technology for Poland's first nuclear power plant. The meeting took place on 10 April 2024 at the ministry's headquarters.

The future of Poland's nuclear power industry, the potential of the newly opened Regional Clean Energy Training Center, and further cooperation between Poland and the US in the field of energy were discussed by Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Miłosz Motyka and Dr Michael Goff – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy, one of the two most important US nuclear officials. The bilateral meeting took place during the grand opening of the Center mentioned above on 3 April 2024 within the walls of the Warsaw University of Technology.

Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Miłosz Motyka, US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski and Michael Goff of the US Department of Energy officially inaugurated the Polish-American Regional Clean Energy Training Center (CETC). On 3 April 2024, the Warsaw University of Technology held an inaugural nuclear training session. The opening was also attended by the Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology, Professor Krzysztof Zaremba, the President of the State Atomic Energy Agency, Andrzej Głowacki, and the Director General of the Chamber of Commerce for Energy and Environmental Protection, Bogdan Pilch.

Joint action on energy security, as well as the restoration of Ukraine's natural resources and elements of its flora and fauna, and the issue of starting negotiations on a bilateral agreement on environmental impact assessments in a transboundary context were the topics of talks between Minister of Climate and Environment Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Deputy Ministers Mikołaj Dorożała and Maciej Bando with the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and the Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine. The agreement on Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in the field of energy (the so-called Memorandum of Understanding) was signed during meetings with representatives of the Ukrainian side on 28 March 2024 at the Ministry's headquarters.

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).