28 February 2008

Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change pays official visit to Poland
 
On 28 February 2008, in Warsaw, Professor Maciej Nowicki, Polish Environmental Minister, meets Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. His visit is dedicated to discussion of the substantive and logistic matters relating to organisation of the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the UN Framework Climate Convention (UNFCCC), serving as the 4th Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP4), to be held in Poznan this December. 

It is not the first meeting to be held by both Statesmen. They already met on 17 January 2008 in Bonn where they signed the Host Country Agreement between Government of the Republic of Poland and Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on organisation of the 14th Conference of Climate Change in Poland. During that ceremonial event, Minister Maciej Nowicki emphasized that the Conference to be held in Poznan will form a milestone on the way towards consensus on the international legal regulations to set out the States’ commitments beyond 2012 concerning reductions of greenhouse gas those are to be reached during the Copenhagen COP in 2009. 

On 1-12 December 2008, the 14th Conference of the Parties to Climate Convention - COP14 - serving as the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP14/MOP4) will be held in Poznan, Poland. The Convention output achieved so far, as well as that under the Kyoto Protocol, will be summarized there.  Poland will make its best efforts in order to arrange this important international meeting in a manner leading to achievement of specific results aimed at stopping climate change and adaptation to inevitable changes. The Poznan meeting is also a milestone on the way towards consensus on the commitments concerning GHGs reduction that is to be reached during the Copenhagen COP in 2009.  During the Poznan Conference, particular emphasis will be put on identification of specific examples of successful technology transfer and of the actions on adaptation to climate change, so that these good practices could be promulgated. The Conference will attract about 10,000-12,000 participants from 190 countries. In connection with the Convention panels, it will form an important step leading towards specific actions aimed at the protection of the Earth climate. In his recent address delivered at the UN General Assembly, Professor Maciej Nowicki, Polish Environmental Minister, declared to organise a world exhibition in Poznan that will present innovative inventions and management solutions serving for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, beginning from the simplest solutions trough the most advanced technologies.