Maciej Nowicki

This article is about the Polish politician and ecologist. For the architect, see Matthew Nowicki .

Maciej Nowicki (2010)

Maciej Władysław Nowicki ([ ˈmatɕɛj vwaˈdɨswaf nɔˈvʲitskʲi ], born September 28, 1941 in Warsaw ) is a Polish politician and ecologist. From November 16, 2007 to December 8, 2009, the non-party Nowicki was Polish Minister for Environmental Protection in Donald Tusk's cabinet .

Life

Nowicki graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology ( Politechnika Warszawska ) in 1964 . From 1964 to 1970 he worked at the Polska Akademia Nauk ( Polish Academy of Sciences ). Nowicki then worked as a lecturer at the Technical University of Warsaw until 1986. There he received his doctorate in 1972 and four years later he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the protection of the atmosphere at the University of Warsaw . He has been allowed to bear the title of professor since 1992.

In 1991 Nowicki became Minister for Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forests under Lech Wałęsa , the previous year he was Vice Minister for the Environment. In 1992 he left his ministerial post and became chairman of EkoFundusz , a foundation that finances environmental protection measures from Poland's foreign debts. In 1994 he became Vice Chairman of the UN Commission for Ecological Development, and in 1997 he was advisor to the Secretary General of the OECD.

In 1996 he was the first foreign laureate to receive the environmental award of the Federal Environment Foundation for his life's work. With the prize money of 250,000 euros, he set up the Nowicki Foundation , which enables talented Polish graduates in the field of environmental protection to stay in Germany on a scholarship. 160 grants were awarded from 1996 to 2007.

In August 2007 he gave up the chairmanship of EkoFundusz and on November 16, 2007 he was appointed Minister for Environmental Protection.

On December 8, 2009, one day after the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen , which he attended, he submitted his resignation as Environment Minister. It is speculated that it came out of a dispute over the use of funds from the sale of emissions trading . Maciej Nowicki wanted to use her, his deputy Stanisław Gawłowski and Donald Tusk for environmental protection. He was succeeded in February 2010 by Andrzej Kraszewski .

Nowicki is married and has two children.

Awards

In 1996 he received the environmental award from the Federal Environment Foundation . He was also awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland .

Works

• Green neighborhood - Poland , together with Lutz Ribbe, translated by Robert Wylot and Iwona Lemańska, Warsaw 2001, ISBN 83-86902-94-9
• Problemy ekorozwoju Polski , together with Lutz Ribbe, Warsaw 2001, ISBN 83-86902-94-9
• Problemy obliczeniowe w ochronie atmosfery , together with Stanisław Chróściel, Warsaw 1977
• Projektowanie Lokalizacji zakładów przemysłowych w aspekcie ochrony atmosfery , together with Wojciech Jaworski, Warsaw 1986
• Strategia ekorozwoju Polski , Warsaw 1993, ISBN 83-900559-3-7
• Urządzenia odpylające , together with Jan Juda, Warsaw 1986, ISBN 83-01-06311-4
• W tym Dniu Najświętszym ...: rozważania na Drodze Krzyżowej , Warsaw 2006, ISBN 83-89960-05-2

References

Web links

• CV on the website of the Polish Ministry of Environment (Polish)

Footnotes

1. ↑ EkoFundusz
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt: DBU Environment Prize Winner Nowicki becomes Polish Environment Minister , Nov. 16, 2007  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ He shared the prize with the Wilkhahn Wilkening + Hahne GmbH & Co.KG .
5. ↑ German Federal Environment Foundation: Prof. Dr. Maciej Nowicki, Warsaw ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Märkische Oderzeitung, Poland's Environment Minister Nowicki resigned , December 8, 2009