OREANDA-NEWS. April 11, 2013. Press center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine hosted a media conference with participation of Minister of Environment and Nature Resources of Ukraine Oleh Proskuryakov titled “The course of realization of projects under GIS in Ukraine”.

“Realization of projects under the green investment scheme is one of key lines of activity of the State Agency for Environmental Investments of Ukraine which is under the system patronage of the Ministry of Environment and Nature Resources of Ukraine,” Minister of Environment and Nature Resources of Ukraine Oleh Proskuryakov noted.

“In the first place, the projects under green investment scheme are directed to reducing energy dependency of Ukraine, shortening of use of fuel and energy resources and, as a result, shortening of emissions of greenhouse gases and also achieving high environmental effect in the frames of fight against global climatic change on the planet. Realization of such projects in schools, hospitals of Ukraine facilitate to significant improvement of welfare, working conditions and education of population of Ukraine,” Oleh Proskuryakov underlined.

Also it was stressed that owing to successful realization of GIS projects Ukraine had significantly enlarged and deepened cooperation with Japan. This was the topic of discussion during one of the recent Governmental meetings of Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov with President of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Hideo Hato and Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Toichi Sakata.

After general review of the process of realization of projects under GIS in Ukraine Oleh Proskuryakov focused on statistical data and peculiarities of realization of each peculiar project.
As of April 1, 2013 there have been agreed with Japanese party, according to Agreement for the Sale and Purchase of Assigned Amount Units (AAU), 536 projects of target environmental investments in 24 Ukraine’s regions with general cost of UAH 3 813.5 mln and expected annual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions amounting 116.9 thousand tons CO2e.

529 projects for overhaul (thermal sanitation) of objects of social sphere, which are carried out predominantly in educational and healthcare institutions in all regions of Ukraine, are being in the process of realization.

In March of 2013 there were finalized construction and assembly works and received declarations about readiness to exploit 20 objects of social sphere in Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava and Kharkiv regions. A schedule of finishing activities on the remaining objects by the end of August of 2013 was agreed with the Japanese party.