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The aim of the paper is to present risks, challenges and directions for further changes relating to the Polish energy security in the global and regional environment. The phenomena associated with the concept of climate changes, global technology race and increasing resource dependencies is presented. There is taken also an attempt to link these issues in the context of rapidly changing geopolitical dependencies, both with presentation of the consequences of these threats. The paper likewise submits the issues of energy security, the risks associated with the energy security of the European Union and the basic assumptions that underlie the EU's energy security policy.