Empowering Ukraine’s Resilience: Official Launch of the Sustainable Finance Platform

Ukraine has offi­cial­ly launched its Sus­tain­able Finance Plat­form (SFP), which will become new nation­al mech­a­nism to coor­di­nate sus­tain­able finance pol­i­cy and EU-aligned stan­dards. Bring­ing togeth­er gov­ern­ment, reg­u­la­tor, banks, busi­ness and inter­na­tion­al part­ners, the Plat­form will dri­ve the country’s green tran­si­tion and strength­en its eco­nom­ic resilience.

Ukraine today marks a major mile­stone in its path toward eco­nom­ic resilience and Euro­pean inte­gra­tion with the offi­cial launch of the Sus­tain­able Finance Plat­form (SFP) dur­ing the forum Strength­en­ing Ukraine’s resilience: Launch of the Sus­tain­able Finance Plat­form.

Oleh Voy­tovych, Deputy State Sec­re­tary of the Cab­i­net of Min­is­ters of Ukraine:

Sus­tain­able finance is an inte­gral part of our path toward the Euro­pean Union. We clear­ly under­stand that Ukraine’s future EU mem­ber­ship is impos­si­ble with­out full inte­gra­tion into the Euro­pean eco­nom­ic space, which is built on the prin­ci­ples of the Euro­pean Green Deal. There­fore, it is nec­es­sary to devel­op in Ukraine a sus­tain­able finance sys­tem that meets EU require­ments.

Co-orga­nized by the Sec­re­tari­at of the Cab­i­net of Min­is­ters under the umbrel­la of the Office of the Pres­i­dent of Ukraine in coop­er­a­tion with the Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office (UCO) and the GIZ Sus­tain­able Finance Unit (SFU), the launch event gath­ered high-lev­el rep­re­sen­ta­tives from gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tions, reg­u­la­tors, banks, the pri­vate sec­tor, civ­il-soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions and inter­na­tion­al part­ners.

Jocelin Cor­net, Head of Sec­tion for Recon­struc­tion, Ener­gy, Infra­struc­ture and Envi­ron­ment:

By launch­ing this Sus­tain­able Finance Plat­form, Ukraine is send­ing a clear sig­nal to mar­kets and part­ners: recov­ery will be built on EU-aligned, sus­tain­able finance. This is essen­tial to unlock pri­vate cap­i­tal at scale and to turn the Ukraine Facil­i­ty into tan­gi­ble, green and resilient invest­ments.

By ear­ly 2026 quar­ter­ly coor­di­na­tion meet­ings will begin to mon­i­tor progress, align ter­mi­nol­o­gy across min­istries and ensure that the sub‑groups deliv­er con­crete out­puts on sched­ule. Reg­u­lar stakeholder‑engagement sem­i­nars, sched­uled every six months, will keep the wider busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, civil‑society organ­i­sa­tions and inter­na­tion­al part­ners informed and involved. As a result of its work, a State of Sus­tain­able Finance in Ukraine Annu­al Report will be pub­lished each year.

Myko­la Brusenko, Advis­er to the Deputy Head of the Office of the Pres­i­dent of Ukraine, not­ed:

Ukraine has every chance to become an exam­ple for the world: a coun­try that, despite war, destruc­tion, and decades of his­tor­i­cal oppres­sion, is capa­ble of recov­er­ing and build­ing a bright and sta­ble future based on sus­tain­abil­i­ty, trans­paren­cy, and inno­va­tion. Sus­tain­able devel­op­ment is about the deci­sions we make today and their impact on the world in 20, 30, or 50 years. It is about the kind of world our chil­dren and our children’s chil­dren will live in. The deci­sions we make now will deter­mine what kind of state we rebuild and what kind of state we pass on to future gen­er­a­tions.

The Plat­form will play a piv­otal role in coor­di­nat­ing Ukraine’s tran­si­tion to a cli­mate-resilient, EU-aligned finan­cial sys­tem. This will bol­ster eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty and unlock new oppor­tu­ni­ties for sus­tain­able invest­ment in Ukraine.

Back­ground infor­ma­tion:

The Sus­tain­able Finance Plat­form is host­ed by the Sec­re­tari­at of the Cab­i­net of Min­is­ters under the umbrel­la of the Office of the Pres­i­dent of Ukraine with the sup­port of the GIZ Sus­tain­able Finance Unit and the Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office/C4CA Project. Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office (UCO) will pro­vide assis­tance to SFP, focus­ing on tech­ni­cal activ­i­ties and includ­ing in-depth analy­sis of planned reforms, inter­na­tion­al best prac­tices, and the review and align­ment of exist­ing strate­gic doc­u­ments relat­ed to sus­tain­able finance. 

The Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office/Capacities for Cli­mate Action (C4CA) project is imple­ment­ed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty with­in the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI) and co-financed by the Euro­pean Union.