On January 19, representatives of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety, under the chairpersonship of Riabchyn O.M., Bel’kova O.V., Lopushanskyi A.Ya., Katser-Buchkovska N.V. along with a representative of the Committee on Environmental Policy, Nature Resources Utilization and Elimination of the Consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe Yednak O.V., the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine and the UNDP in Ukraine held a round table on the topic "Presentation and discussion of the Concept of low carbon development strategy for Ukraine."
At the event presented was an analytical material of the German company DIW econ, which in particular contains a review of the problems existing in Ukraine, an appraisal of sectors of the economy requiring state investments in order to increase energy efficiency, and later an impulse to GDP growth, and recommendations concerning the mechanism of such investments.
As at today Ukraine has developed the Strategy for Sustainable Development "Ukraine – 2020," coordinated the Energy Strategy of Ukraine, approved the national action plans for renewable energy and energy efficiency, elaborated the conceptual principles of implementing the state policy in the field of climate change and presented the Concept of low carbon development strategy. All these documents are vitally important over Ukraine’s strivings to implement the Paris Agreement. However, the above strategies and plans have been elaborated by different bodies from different angles of view on the problems in the spheres of their competence, so they do not form a common coordinated development strategy for Ukraine.
The participants of the meeting agreed that the proposed Concept of the strategy may be a part of and moreover, a methodological framework for the development of a unified strategy. Government officials and the public expressed the hope that the Committee may become a platform for elaboration of such a unified document and addressed the deputies with a request to become coordinators of this process.