Strengthening climate actions in Ukrainian communities

Ukraine is high­ly vul­ner­a­ble to the impacts of cli­mate change and has iden­ti­fied agri­cul­ture, water resources, ener­gy, trans­porta­tion, health, the urban envi­ron­ment and forests, and coastal zone man­age­ment as key adap­ta­tion pri­or­i­ties. As a result of recent decen­tral­iza­tion reforms, com­mu­ni­ties have more auton­o­my in deci­sion-mak­ing, receiv­ing a sig­nif­i­cant share of tax­es. How­ev­er, inter­na­tion­al cli­mate com­mit­ments are not yet ade­quate­ly linked to nation­al poli­cies.

The project sup­ports the par­tic­i­pa­to­ry devel­op­ment of mit­i­ga­tion mea­sures in select­ed munic­i­pal­i­ties accom­pa­nied by var­i­ous knowl­edge-build­ing for­mats, includ­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion of munic­i­pal­i­ties in nation­al process­es. In addi­tion, two munic­i­pal cli­mate pro­tec­tion mea­sures will be co-fund­ed, as well as par­tic­i­pa­tion in cli­mate leg­is­la­tion process­es.