The meeting provided an excellent opportunity not only for presentation of this outstanding achievement, but also to emphasise that Poland is the country which has actively written itself into the reduction process of greenhouse gas emission worldwide, while using the instruments as set forth in the Kyoto Protocol. Implementation of the said project will result not only in reduction of atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gas, but also in transfer of up-to-date catalytic technology for reduction of N2O which has not been so far applied by the Polish mineral fertilizer production industry.

- "It is a very good example of up-to-date approach to environmental protection issues as required by the European Union - said Minister M. Nowicki during the inaugural ceremony at the ANWIL Nitrogen Plant S.A., in Wloclawek. - "It is also exemplification of environmental protection method not halting economic development" - he continued.

The Minister emphasised that the UK- and Polish-made novelty solutions were applied for reduction of nitrous oxide emission - one of the two catalysts being constructed and patented by the Mineral Fertilizer Institute, in Puławy.

Reduction of nitrous oxide emission is implemented under Joint Implementation (JI) mechanism as set forth in Decision titled "The Joint Implementation Methods and Procedures" (under Article 6 of the Kyoto Protocol) approved on 10 November 2001 during the Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

N2O is a powerful greenhouse gas. Its impact as the component responsible for the greenhouse effect is 310 times as much stronger than that of CO2. Reduction of N2O emissions is of significant importance in view of counteracting climate change.