Kurtika: in addition to the climate in the resort also conservation and water management

Kurtyka stressed on Twitter that almost a year of activity of the climate resort is a time of intensive work on climate and energy issues.

"I am honored to continue this work, which includes issues related to nature conservation and water management," added the Minister.

On Tuesday, President Andrzej Duda made changes in the composition of the Council of Ministers. The President dismissed Michał Kurtyk as climate minister and appointed him as climate and environmental minister. He took over the role of climate minister Kurtika in mid-November 2019.

Michał Kurtyka started his professional career in the Office of the Committee of European Integration, in the team of Minister Jan Kułakowski, responsible for conducting accession negotiations with the European Union, where he led an analytical team and was directly responsible for the energy and transport area.

In April 2018, he was appointed as Plenipotentiary of the Government for COP Presidency 24, or UN Climate Summit in Katowice. The same year he took up the position of Deputy Minister of the Environment. During the conference in Katowice, the states adopted the so-called Rulebook, which sets out the basic procedures and mechanisms necessary for the implementation of the Paris Agreement negotiated in 2015. The conference also adopted the Declaration of Solidarne and Fair Transformation (Just Transition), which points out that this must be done while maintaining economic development and jobs.

Previously, in 2016, Kurtyka became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Energy, where he was responsible for technological development and innovation in the energy sector, implementation of climate and energy policy in the fuel and gas sector, international relations with countries and international organisations. His duties also included overseeing the state's participation in the largest Polish energy companies in the oil and gas sectors, such as Orlen, Lotos and PGNiG. He was the originator of the "Electromobility Development Plan" and then piloted the creation of the Electromobility and Alternative Fuels Act.

Michał Kurtika was born in 1973. He is a graduate of the Paris University of Ecole Polytechnique and a scholarship in quantum optics located under Washington (DC) The National Institute of Standards and Technologies, where he worked under the leadership of Nobel Prize winner William D. Phillips in Physics.

During his studies, he also specialized in economics, with particular emphasis on market organisation led by Professor Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 2014.

In the field of international economics, he studied at the University of Louvain La Neuve and received a master's degree in Warsaw School of Economics. He defended his PhD at the University of Warsaw.

Nearly a year of activity @MinClimate This is the time of intensive action in the field of energy and climate. I am honored to continue this work, which includes issues relating to nature conservation and water management. pic.twitter.com/bFcGHBse6g
— Michał Kurtyka (@KurtykaMichael) October 6, 2020