The results of this discussion were then explored during talks held in four sessions of the Environment Policy Committee. On the first of them, titled the Recent Environmental Trends and Prognoses for the Decades to Come, Professor M. Nowicki delivered presentation on "The opportunities to the Global Environmental Cooperation". Other EPOC/OECD sessions were dedicated to cooperation on the environmental issues between the OECD countries and developing countries, including competitiveness, eco-innovation and climate change, and strengthening cooperation between the relevant Governments on the implementation of ambitious climate policy targets. Polish Minister provided comments on the impact of globalisation on the protection of the environment, the success of the UN Convention on the protection of ozone layer, and on the assumptions for the UNFCCC COP14/MOP4 to be held in Poland this year.  

Minister M. Nowicki said that "- This year Conference in Poznan will summarise the output of the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol and the foundations will be established for a new Protocol which has to be signed in 2009, in Copenhagen. It depends upon readiness of many countries - those developed and developing - to incur the burden of the common responsibility for climate change and the effects thereof whether we shall be in position to reverse this current dramatic trend of growing greenhouse gas emissions so as to achieve their decline. To achieve this we need common efforts to be done by politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists and all communities to be continuously more and more aware of the hazards caused by climate change on Earth. The time has come for solidary actions, otherwise in 10-20 years it will be too late."  
  
The Minister added yet that globalisation begins spreading over all spheres of human life and economy and it does not omit the matters pertaining to the protection of the environment. Environmental hazards and damage was so far of a local nature, or a regional at the latest. "- But nowadays for the first time in its history mankind has touched the boundary which has been delimited by contained system of the planet where it dwells" - said Professor "- Any further expansion following the current patterns has become unfeasible unless natural disasters, political chaos, wide scale migration of populations, or even wars for natural wealth, including access to water, are avoided. The global hazards require global, solidary counteraction." 

Professor M. Nowicki mentioned also the success of the UN Convention on the protection of ozone layer. Depletion of ozone in stratosphere could have brought about tragic effects for man and nature because of fatal impacts from excessive ultraviolet radiation. Rapid phasing out of freons and halons enabled for suppression of the reasons which caused the ozone hole. Now, that gives hope that the ozone content in the atmosphere will gradually recover during the next decades. And that was possible just thanks to the UN Ozone Convention. 

On the conclusion of his address, Professor Maciej Nowicki appealed to participants, saying: "- The decades to come will be decisive for mankind - either it sinks in chaos, including armed conflicts because of environmental reasons, combat for water and raw materials, including huge migrations and continuously more dangerous environmental disasters, or it undertakes concerted action for the sake of reversal of these tragic trends. The burden of responsibility for the joint activities undertaken or desisted of is on our generation." 

The topics of other sessions of the Environment Policy Committee included environmental cooperation between OECD countries and developing countries, competitiveness, eco-innovations and climate change, as well as strengthening cooperation between Governments for implementation of ambitious climate policy.