English
Українська
IKI Logo
News & Events

Category:

Project News

5th Call for IKI Small Grants Proposals

IKI Small Grants: 5th Call open until 13 March 2024

The Frank­furt Zoo­log­i­cal Soci­ety sup­ports envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion pro­grams in 12 Pro­tect­ed Areas in the Ukrain­ian Carpathi­ans. The FZS envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion team recent­ly com­plet­ed a study tour of par­tic­u­lar Ger­man pro­tect­ed areas which excel in envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion and trans­ferred their learn­ings to the employ­ees of Carpathi­an pro­tect­ed areas through two-day sem­i­nars held on-site in the Carpathi­ans.

The Origins of the Low Carbon Ukraine Project

In Sep­tem­ber 2023, Low Car­bon Ukraine (LCU)-Project team leader Robert Kirch­n­er par­tic­i­pat­ed in an expert inter­view with the 100GREEN YouTube chan­nel where he dis­cussed the ori­gins of the LCU project and its role in Ukraine’s ener­gy trans­for­ma­tion, the impor­tance of Euro­pean cli­mate leg­is­la­tion for Ukrain­ian busi­ness­es, as well as Ukraine’s future devel­op­ment.

Apartment building in Lviv, Ukraine

Successful Thermo-Modernization of Buildings even in Times of War

As of Decem­ber 2023, 6 mul­ti­a­part­ment build­ings in Sykhiv dis­trict of Lviv with the home­own­ers’ asso­ci­a­tions were ful­ly mod­ern­ized under the “Ener­godim” pro­gram of Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Fund – with the sup­port of the project. Con­struc­tion works at 3 of them were end­ed in 2022–2023 under the con­di­tions of full-scale war in Ukraine.

Picture of a lynx in a snowy forest

Filling Data Gaps of the Lynx Research in Ukraine

FZS’s researchers con­duct­ed the first spa­tial­ly-explic­it cap­ture-recap­ture of lynx using cam­era traps. Near­ly 3 years of work, 100s of cam­era traps, 100,000s of cam­era trap pho­tos, and dozens of spe­cial­ists were need­ed to make this hap­pen.

A group is meeting in a conference room

Eco-Education Programs as an Investment in the Future

The Frank­furt Zoo­log­i­cal Soci­ety sup­ports envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion pro­grams in 12 Pro­tect­ed Areas in the Ukrain­ian Carpathi­ans. The FZS envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion team recent­ly com­plet­ed a study tour of par­tic­u­lar Ger­man pro­tect­ed areas which excel in envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion and trans­ferred their learn­ings to the employ­ees of Carpathi­an pro­tect­ed areas through two-day sem­i­nars held on-site in the Carpathi­ans.

Rouven Stubbe is talking to another man

Low Carbon Ukraine Participation at the European-Ukrainian Energy Day in Vienna

Rou­ven Stubbe, con­sul­tant at Berlin Eco­nom­ics and ener­gy expert at the Low Car­bon Ukraine project deliv­ered a speech at the Euro­pean-Ukrain­ian Ener­gy Day in Vien­na on Sep­tem­ber 28, 2023. Sub­se­quent­ly, he par­tic­i­pat­ed in a pan­el dis­cus­sion on “Ener­gy secu­ri­ty and build­ing back
bet­ter: Ener­gy effi­cien­cy as part of ener­gy secu­ri­ty strat­e­gy and a tool for free­ing resources for eco­nom­ic growth”

Power plant Burshtyn TES, Ukraine

Presenting the Way towards the Establishment of an Emission Trading Scheme in Ukraine

On 27th Novem­ber, about 100 rep­re­sen­ta­tives of busi­ness and gov­ern­ment took part in a round­table dis­cus­sion, aimed at pre­sent­ing work and plans of the MEPR on the way to the imple­men­ta­tion of an ETS in Ukraine, as well as to dis­cussing busi­ness readi­ness for its intro­duc­tion and vision of the system’s design ele­ments.

"Shades of Green" Graphic

Translating the Benefits of Green Investments into Actionable Steps for Ukraine

The “Shades of Green” dis­cus­sion on Ukraine’s green recov­ery, orga­nized by the Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office, WWF Ukraine, and CEE on Novem­ber 21st, high­light­ed the impor­tance of green invest­ments. With around 50 par­tic­i­pants from nation­al and inter­na­tion­al cli­mate pol­i­cy stake­hold­ers, the event aimed to trans­late the ben­e­fits of green invest­ments into action­able steps for Ukraine.

Ukraine Pavilion at COP28

Facilitating Ukraine’s Participation in the COP28

As a forth­com­ing inde­pen­dent Cen­ter of Excel­lence focused on cli­mate issues, the Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office (UCO) active­ly backs Ukraine’s cli­mate pol­i­cy ini­tia­tives in both nation­al and inter­na­tion­al are­nas.

Solar Panels with Sunflowers (symbolic picture)

New Steps taken towards the new «Renewables for Resilient Ukraine» Project

The project “Renew­ables for Resilient Ukraine” aims for 16 Ukrain­ian com­mu­ni­ties to receive grants of 30k – 50k EUR to install solar pow­er sys­tems or heat pumps in pub­lic build­ings: schools, hos­pi­tals, kinder­gartens etc.

This has been real­ized by the con­sor­tium of NGOs (Eco­club, Eco­dia, Ener­gy Act For Ukraine Foun­da­tion, RePow­er Ukraine) in polit­i­cal part­ner­ship with the Min­istry of Infra­struc­ture and the Min­istry of Ener­gy. Cur­rent­ly, the grant agree­ment with NGOs has been signed and a tech­ni­cal con­cept for the project has been devel­oped.