Ukraine Prepares for European Standards in Climate Policy

A unique train­ing on green­house gas emis­sions ver­i­fi­ca­tion based on EU stan­dards has start­ed in Ukraine. For the first time, Ukrain­ian com­pa­nies can test first-hand the pro­ce­dures long used across Europe.  

As Ukraine moves towards Euro­pean mar­ket inte­gra­tion, it is required to adopt mod­ern mon­i­tor­ing, report­ing and ver­i­fi­ca­tion (MRV) rules for emis­sions.  

Last week, INTERPIPE STEEL and Gas Trans­mis­sion Sys­tem Oper­a­tor of Ukraine host­ed three-days prac­ti­cal train­ings on emis­sions ver­i­fi­ca­tion.  

The train­ing brought togeth­er: Ger­man expert Rain­er Win­ter from TÜV NORD CERT GmbH, rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Nation­al Accred­i­ta­tion Agency of Ukraine (NAAU), nine ver­i­fiers from ten accred­it­ed Ukrain­ian ver­i­fi­ca­tion bod­ies, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of BU “NCO”, and project spe­cial­ists. Key out­comes:  

— two enter­pris­es gained ear­ly access to EU ver­i­fi­ca­tion prac­tices;  

— Ukrain­ian ver­i­fiers enhanced their pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­fi­ca­tions and prac­ti­cal skills.  

— enter­pris­es are now bet­ter pre­pared for mon­i­tor­ing plans, manda­to­ry annu­al reports, and future inte­gra­tion into the Euro­pean cli­mate pol­i­cy frame­work.  

The train­ing is part of the project “Sup­port for the estab­lish­ment of an emis­sions trad­ing scheme (ETS) in Ukraine”, com­mis­sioned by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for Eco­nom­ic Affairs and Cli­mate Action (BMWK) and imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH in part­ner­ship with the Min­istry of Econ­o­my of Ukraine.