Yesterday the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine – Оstap Semerak have announced the review of Ukraine’s national goal to fight climate change. The statement was made during the UN International Climate Negotiations in Poland — СOP24. The review of national contribution will demand the designing of fossil-free economics. And achieving the reviewed commitment requires…
This text is not about climate science nor about energy transition in general. But to start with, it is important to clarify three points: We urgently need an energy transition. The window of action is closing We have few years left to fundamentally change our energy systems.
Ukraine and Belarus have necessary technical potential and economic reasoning to implement energy transition and increase the share of «green» energy in the Final Energy Supply to 91% and 81% by 2050 correspondingly. This was announced during the press-conference on November 14, 2017 in Bonn, Germany in framework of the COP 23.
Ukraine has every opportunity to abandon fossil fuels by 2050 and bring the share of green energy in its energy demand up to 91%. This is evidenced by the results of the report «Transition of Ukrainian energy sector towards 100% RES in 2050» presented today.
Ukraine’s and Russia’s climate action under the Paris Agreement received the poorest rating according to new rating system launched by Climate Action Tracker (CAT) research group. They found themselves in the company of four other countries — Chile, the USA, Turkey and Saudi Arabia which their climate actions classified as ‘critically insufficient’. The climate policies…
Russian cities joined non-state actors across the world in leading the fight against dangerous climate change. The city of Moscow organised a two-day high level meeting starting on Monday 21 August called “The Climate Forum of Russian Cities” signalling a clear commitment to advance the implementation of the Paris Agreement. On the table were topics…
Today, on August 22, 2017, within the framework of the Climate Forum of the Russian Cities in Moscow, a Round Table «Why cities shall become climate leaders?» is going to be held. During the discussion, experts from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will present their experiences in promoting climate resilience actions in the cities and discuss the…