What solutions will revolutionize environmental protection in the coming years? – WFOŚiGW conference

Yesterday, on December 2, in Kraków, representatives of the government administration, scientists, representatives of the social side and active participants of economic and business life from all over the country, invited to the conference entitled "Żywioły – ochrona środowiska (Elements – environmental protection)" organised by the Voivodship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Kraków (WFOŚiGW), considered the answer to the question posed in the title. Local government officials from the Lesser Poland region dominated the audience.

A representative of our Institute took part in the conference. Dr Łukasz Piechnik, as a member of the Working Group on Social Forests in the Kraków Agglomeration, took part in the panel discussion "EARTH: Social Forests – for People, for the Climate" together with Deputy Minister Mikołaj Dorożała, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Climate and Environment, Prof. Anna Gazda from the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Agriculture in Kraków, Dr Eng. Piotr Kempf, Director of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Kraków, and Anna Treit from the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds.

The progress of work on the establishment of social forests around Kraków and throughout Poland was discussed, and the specificity of forests and forestry in Lesser Poland was characterized, with particular emphasis on the forests in the immediate vicinity of Kraków. The benefits for local governments of the functioning of social forests and legal forms of territorial nature protection were presented. Many ambiguities related to the future functioning of social forests in the Krakow agglomeration were also dispelled.

Participants of the discussion panel.
Photo: Agnieszka Jensz-Stawowczyk.

Dr Łukasz Piechnik.
Photo: Agnieszka Jensz-Stawowczyk.