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

One of the main tasks of the Min­istry of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and Nat­ur­al Resources of Ukraine (MEPR) is to reduce green­house gas emis­sions. Ukraine’s EU can­di­date sta­tus requires the intro­duc­tion of an emis­sions trad­ing sys­tem (ETS), a mar­ket-based tool devel­oped to sup­port mit­i­ga­tion goals.

On 27^th 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.

The event was orga­nized by the MEPR, the IKI project “Sup­port for the Estab­lish­ment of an ETS in Ukraine”, and the World Bank’s “Part­ner­ship for Imple­men­ta­tion of Car­bon Mar­kets” (PMI). It is planned that such dis­cus­sions with busi­ness­es will be con­duct­ed on a reg­u­lar basis.