On 26 of October2016, the open seminar of Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Club «Fund Raising for Resource Efficient Measures Support at SMEs in Chernihiv Region» were held. The event was supported by Chernihiv Regional State Administration and Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre.
The seminar was opened with the welcome speech from: Svitlana Poltoratska (Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Development at Chernihiv Regional State Administration), Ivan Omelchuk Facilitator of the Resource Efficient Cleaner Production Clubs in Ukraine and Taras Sakalosh (Executive director of the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre (RECPC Ukraine).
On October 20, 2016, at theplenary session “Development of sustainable production and consumption model: tools and incentives” of International forum “GREEN MIND – 2016” in Ukraine, was presented the report about “Development of resource efficient and cleaner production in Ukraine” by Kateryna Romanova, National Communication and Advocacy RECP Expert.
On October 11, 2016, RECP Club seminar «Fund raising for resource efficient measures at SMEs in Kharkiv region» was held in a framework of demonstration component “Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production” (RECP) under programme “Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood of European Union” (EaP GREEN) with support of Kharkiv Regional State Administration and Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre (RECPC).
The seminar was attended by representatives of small and medium enterprises, NGO, public authorities and expert community of Kharkiv region, which are interested in the investment opportunities for modernization of manufacturing towards efficient resource consumption and energy saving.
One of the key prerequisites of economic development of the region is the increase of the resource efficiency of the enterprises. On July 21, 2016 in Kharkiv under the support of Kharkiv Regional State Administrationwas held the conference «Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) at the Industrial Enterprises of Kharkiv region» in a framework of international Programme “Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood of European Union (EaP GREEN)”. The aim of the conference was to discuss the experience of raising competitiveness of industrial enterprises and ways of realization of the potential of Kharkiv region.
The event that was held in a hall of Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration attached to the Office of the President of Ukraine. It was visited by the representatives of the localenterprises, state organs and NGOs.
Sustainable economic development of the region is impossible without raising the resourceefficiency of its enterprises. That is why on July 15, 2016 was hold the conference «Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) at the Industrial Enterprises of Chernihiv region» under the support of Chernihiv Regional State Administration in a frame of international Programme “Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood of European Union (EaP GREEN)”.
The representatives of the enterprises, state organs, NGOs and expert society of Chernihiv region came together at the conference-hall of Chernihiv Regional State Administration to discuss the experience of raising the competitevness of enterprises and the ways of realization of the potential of the region.
On June 14, 2016 was held Forum “Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP): Efficient Use of Materials”, which was the final event of series of six thematic forums dedicated to the topics of sustainable consumption and production. This time the EaP GREEN project team took a trip to Lviv, to share the experiences of five previous forums, listen to the presentations, and have discussions with the colleagues and collaborators from the Western region. The event was supported by Lviv Chamber of Commerce and Industry and brought together about 40 people. Among the guests were the representatives of Lviv Regional State Administration, Lviv City Administration, Lviv Chamber of Commerce and Industry, National University Lviv Politechnic, The Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv National Agrarian University, The National Forestry and Wood-Technology University of Ukraine, enterprises of different industries and NGOs of Lviv region.
Forum “Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP): Reduction and Control of Air Emissions” which was held on April 22, 2016 became the fifth in a series of six thematic forums planned in the framework of “Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighborhood of European Union (EaP GREEN)” programme and its demonstration component Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP).
The event gathered more than 40 persons that were interested in discussion and solvation of the urgent problem of our time - air pollution with the harmful industrial emissions.
Nowadays there is no doubts in need of reduction and treatment of wastewater in Ukraine. To discuss the problem and ways of its solution with the participation of many interested parties once again, on March 29, 2016 in the Room of Administrative Board of NTU "KPI" was conducted the forum, dedicated to popularization and dissemination of Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) concept in Ukraine: “Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP): Reduction and Treatment of Waste Water”. This Forum was the fourth of series from six forums dedicated to the topical issues of sustainable consumption and production.
The Forum was organized within a framework of international programme “Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighborhood of European Union” EaP GREEN and its demonstration component Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP), which is implemented by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
On February 16, 2016 at the Hall of the Academic Council of Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA), Forum “Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP):sourcing and efficient use of water” has brought together representatives of Kyivvodokanal, State Agency of Water Resources of Ukraine, Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Municipal Services of Ukraine, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine and a lot of other persons who are interested in solving the problem of sourcing and efficient use of water resources.
The actuality of Forum’s topic and necessity of promotion and stimulation consumers to rational use of water resource was many times underlined during the event. It was also mentioned that the problem of excessive use of water belongs to one of the critical processes that affect the Earth's environmental sustainability.
Nowadays the accumulation of industrial and domestic wastes is one of the most dangerous problems for environment in Ukraine. The annual increase of water and soils pollution with the wastes of coal, chemical, construction, metallurgical industries, municipal facilities and agricultural enterprises reaches alarming proportions. The situation with hazardous waste treatment is getting worse and their storage is often carried out with the breaking of environmental safety rules. According to data from 2014, in Ukraine is annually produced up to 1 billion tons of industrial and household wastes, the volume of their accumulation for 1 km of the total area is over 45 thousands tones and it puts our country at one of the first places in the world in terms of technological loading. Taking into consideration this disappointing statistics, we can conclude that there is an eventual necessity in Ukraine to create an effective system of managing different types of wastes, with the focus on environmental safety and resource efficiency. One of the first steps on the way to such system is the correct and clear presention of the information to society and industry and motivation of individuals and industrial enterprises to follow the established priorities. It is also very important to determine and create the conditions for prevention and/or reduction of wastes, their safe removal and maximum possible use as secondary raw materials.
In a framework of “Greening Economies in the European Union's Eastern Partnership Countries” (EaP GREEN) and demonstration RECP component, which is executed by UNIDO, was evaluated and represented the publication “Techniques and Practices of Resource Efficient Production. Primer of Successful Business”.
The aim of the primer is to make industrial enterprises acquainted with techniques and practices of Resources Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) implementation. The primer contains adopted terminology, which explains targets, problems, phases of implementation and benefits of RECP, examples of successful practices at the national enterprises and the widespread solutions of main problems, related to resource efficiency.
In particular you can find the answers to the following questions:
1. Why RECP implementation will be topical and useful for your business?
2. Which of the environmental problems are essential to your company and how they can be solved with the help of RECP?
3. Which advantages can your company get from RECP implementation?
Центр ресурсоефективного та чистого виробництва створено в рамках проекту UNIDO з розвитку ресурсоефективного та чистого виробництва в Україні. Проект фінансується Швейцарською Конфедерацією та Республікою Австрія.
