Michał Kurtyka was appointed Deputy Minister of the Environment

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki named Michał Kurtyka as Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment, the ministry said.

"Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has appointed Michał Kurtyka as Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Environment, Henryk Kowalczyk, Minister of the Environment, has been appointed

Michał Kurtyka graduated from Ecole Polytechnique de Paris and fellow in quantum optics Washington DC (DC) National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he worked under the physics of Nobel laureate William D. Phillips

"Since January 1, 2016, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Energy, where he was directly responsible for technological development and introduction of innovations in the energy sector, implementation climate and energy policies in the field of fuels and gas, international relations with states and international organizations, supervision of state participation in the largest Polish energy companies in s the oil and gas sector, such as Orlen, Lotos and PGNiG. He was the initiator of the "Electromobility Development Plan" and piloted the creation of a law on electromobility and alternative fuels, through which these forms of transport will be able to to develop dynamically.

2018

From 3 to 14 December 2018, Katowice will host the world's largest global forum on global climate policy: the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) with the 14th meeting of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CPM 14).