Andrzej Kraszewski has been announced as Poland’s new environment minister and official nomination will take place at the Presidential Palace Monday afternoon.

Kraszewski is a professor at the Warsaw Institute of Technology. He has been responsible for projects such as public waste incineration plants and beltways in big agglomerations. He also specializes in researching the influence of big infrastructure projects on the natural environment.

The previous minister, Professor Maciej Nowicki resigned on December 8, 2009, a day after he opened the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen. He held the post from 16 November 2007 and in Jan Krzysztof Bielecki’s cabinet from 1989 to 1991.

Explaining his sudden resignation Nowicki said it was the result of an agreement with the Prime Minister. “I agreed to fulfil certain tasks, not to serve a full term as a Minister of Environment,” said Nowicki. (di)