Second Preparatory Meeting of the 30th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum

VIENNA/ŁÓDŹ, 20 May 2022 – OSCE Chairman-in-Office Zbigniew Rau, Poland’s Foreign Minister, and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid will open the Second Preparatory Meeting of the 30th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum on 23 May 2022.

The overarching theme for this year’s Economic and Environmental Forum is “Promoting security and stability in the OSCE area through sustainable economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic”, while the Second Preparatory Meeting will focus on specific issues to promote green recovery and growth in all OSCE participating States.

The keynote address will be delivered by Ruslan Strelets, Ukraine’s Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources. Among the speakers, we will welcome Sławomir Mazurek, Vice-President of the Management Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Poland and Nick Bridge, the United Kingdom’s Special Representative for Climate Change.

The opening session of the meeting takes place from 09:30 on 23 May and will be livestreamed on https://www.osce.org/live.

The Economic and Environmental Forum enables political dialogue among the 57 OSCE participating States on key economic and environmental issues related to security.

This year marks the Forum’s thirtieth anniversary and will gather representatives from governments, state institutions, international organizations, the business sector, civil society and academia.