Second International Conference on JI Projects in Ukraine
“Climate Change and Business”

October 23-25, 2006
Kyiv, Ukraine

320 specialists from 22 different countries took part in the conference; 120 participants were from abroad (Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark, USA, Japan, Switzerland, Russia etc.)

Professional background of participants:

• foreign carbon funds, which buy emission reduction units (ERUs), generated within JI projects;
• determinators (accredited independed entities);
• project developers;
• governmental authorities;
• plants, mines, and other enterprises, potential Ukrainian JI project owners;
• energy agencies, commercial consulting firms, public sector environmental organisations.

Well-known organisations participated in the conference, e.g. Global Carbon (Netherlands), ING Bank (Netherlands), EcoSecurities (United Kingdom), NEFCO (Finland), TUEV SUED (Germany), FDEEM (Ukraine), RIKA-biofuel Ltd. (Ukraine), Austrian JI/CDM Programme (Austria), Austrian Energy Agency (Austria), Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Denmark), Zasyad’ko Coal Mine (Ukraine), Podilsky Cement (Ukraine), SC Ukrtransgas (Ukraine), NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine (Ukraine), OJSC Zaporozhsky Aluminium industrial complex (Ukraine), InterPipe Ltd. (Ukraine), ESCO Energy Alliance (Ukraine), Eastern-European Energy Union Ltd. (Ukraine), Dneprostal Ltd. (Ukraine), Kotloturboprom Ltd. (Ukraine), CJSC Pology Oil Extraction Plant (Ukraine), OJSC UkrHydroEnergo (Ukraine), OJSC Kharkiv CHP-5 (Ukraine) and other.

The three-day Conference programme included:

• Plenary presentations dedicated to current status and perspectives for JI project development in Ukraine and around the world.
• Oral presentations on project types and individual projects
• Round-table discussions
• Negotiations between buyers and sellers of emission reduction units
• Exhibition opportunities

Organizers

Sponsors:

Gold Sponsors:
	Global Carbon
	ING Group
	EcoSecurities
Silver Sponsors:
	The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO)
	TUV Industrie Service GmbH TUV SUD Group
	Foundation for the Development of Environmental and Energy Markets (FDEEM)

Support:

Committee of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Ecology Policy, Nature Management and Elimination of Chernobyl Accident
Ministry of Building, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine
Ministry of Coal Industry of Ukraine
Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine
Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine
Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
National Agency of Ukraine for Effective Energy Use
Renewable Energy Agency

Information sponsors:

Interactive sponsors:

Topics

1. Investors' outlook into JI market
2. Emissions Trading Policy & JI procedures in Ukraine
3. JI projects in landfill and waste water biogas
4. JI projects in coal mining and industrial sectors
5. JI projects on heat and power production
6. Development, validation and verification of JI projects

Working languages of the Conference

Ukrainian, Russian, English
Simultaneous translation of presentations was provided.

Conference venue

The 2nd International Conference on JI Projects in Ukraine "Climate Change and Business" was held at the Concert hall of the Ukrainian House (2, Khreschatyk str., Kiev). The Conference took place in the cultural and historical center of Kyiv.

Organising committee

Conference Chairman	Vasyl Dzharty Minister of Environmental Protection of Ukraine
Deputy Chairmen:	Alexandra Amerstorfer Head of Austrian JI/CDM Program Svyatoslav Kurulenko Ministry for Environmental Protection of Ukraine Taras Bebeshko Climate Change's Centre of Ukraine Anatoliy Dolinsky Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the NAS of Ukraine
Coordinators:	Georgiy Veremiychyk Ministry for Environmental Protection of Ukraine Georgiy Geletukha Scientific Engineering Centre "BIOMASS" Alexandr Sigal Institute of Engineering Ecology Olga Gassan-zade Ukraine office of Point Carbon
Scientific Secretary	Alexandra Pukhnyuk SEC "Biomass"

Correspondence

jiconference@biomass.kiev.ua

or mailed:

SEC "Biomass"
p/o Box 66
03067, Kyiv
Ukraine