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Online Session: Empowering Civil Society Amidst War Presentation of the Study “Civic space for participation in climate policies in Ukraine – In times of war”

Join us for an insight­ful webi­nar as we unveil com­pelling study find­ings on civ­il soci­ety involve­ment dur­ing times of war. Engage in a dynam­ic pre­sen­ta­tion of the study’s dis­cov­er­ies, fol­lowed by a col­lab­o­ra­tive brain­storm­ing ses­sion to explore inno­v­a­tive ways to enhance the role of civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions (CSOs).

5th Call for IKI Small Grants Proposals
Project News

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.

MediaProject News

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
Project News

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
Project News

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
Project News

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
Project News

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”

"Shades of Green" Graphic
EventsProject News

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.

Solar Panels with Sunflowers (symbolic picture)
Project News

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.

Picture of a group
Project News

Coordination Meeting of NGOs and Members of the Rebuild Ukraine Green Platform

Pri­or to the 3rd Ger­man-Ukrain­ian Ener­gy Day, Deputy Head of the Low Car­bon Ukraine project Pavel Bilek attend­ed the coor­di­na­tion meet­ing of NGOs and mem­bers of the Rebuild Ukraine Green plat­form. Dur­ing the full-day event, the par­tic­i­pants dis­cussed the major oppor­tu­ni­ties and obsta­cles for Ukraine’s recon­struc­tion and the need to ensure green prin­ci­ples and sus­tain­abil­i­ty are pri­or­i­tized in any rebuild­ing activ­i­ties.

Panel discussion
EventsProject News

German-Ukrainian Energy Day 2023

The annu­al Ger­man-Ukrain­ian Ener­gy Day with­in the frame­work of the Ger­man-Ukrain­ian Ener­gy Part­ner­ship strength­ens the part­ner­ship between Ger­many and Ukraine, facil­i­tat­ing strate­gic engage­ment, knowl­edge exchange, and busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties with­in the ener­gy sec­tor. This year’s event was held in Berlin on the 25th of Octo­ber. Dur­ing the event, Robert Kirch­n­er, Team Leader of the Low Car­bon Ukraine project, par­tic­i­pat­ed in a pan­el on “Strength­en­ing Frame­works for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and Mar­ket Inte­gra­tion of the Ukrain­ian Ener­gy Sec­tor”.

Events

Intensifying German-Ukrainian Climate Cooperation in Times of War in Ukraine

The work­shop, held on 27 Feb­ru­ary 2023 in Berlin and as a vir­tu­al event, was titled “IKI Imple­men­ta­tion in War Times – Under­pin­ning Ukraine’s Green Recon­struc­tion with Ambi­tious Cli­mate and Bio­di­ver­si­ty Pol­i­cy and Action”, and saw Ukrain­ian IKI projects dis­cussing these issues togeth­er with polit­i­cal part­ners from Ger­many and Ukraine.