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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Canada-ukraine Climate Change Program
I. Components
and Planned Activities
Main activities characteristics are provided below. Details of the process,
including developing and implementing specific work packages according
to planned activities and expected result, will be further negotiated.
Cooperation-developing recommendations formulating Program project concepts
and concrete work packages aimed at their implementation will be covered
in а special paper "Program Development Strategy". The same paper stipulates
developing and approving work packages implementation schedules.
1. Developing
National Ukrainian Climate Change Strategy
Conducting meetings - workshops of Joint Ukraine-canada
Program Management Committee; working out cooperation development strategy
within the Program framework; holding the Final Conference and having
the results of Program and specific projects published.
Establishing links between national organizations and
institutions in Ukraine and Canada involved in climate change activities.
Providing for ongoing information exchange with respect
to major responses to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the
Kyoto Protocol. Developing recommendations on efficient
policies for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and adequate economy
sectors adaptation to climate change, including putting in place appropriate
legal framework.
2. Developing
Climate Change Management Structure
Facilitating administrative structure in Ukraine for
climate change efficient management, in particular, providing technical
and information support to Specialized Scientific Ancillary Agency under
MEPNS.
Providing for ongoing information and documentation
exchange on methodologies for measuring anthropogeneous greenhouse gas
emissions, for determining baseline levels, for ensuring that monitoring
and measuring procedures meet international standards.
Preparing proposals on improving climate system observation,
studying and forecasting climate behavior and its special features and
consequences by regions.
3. Joint
Implementation Projects Policy Development
Identifying sectors and individual enterprises in Ukrainian
industry that could be of special interest to Canadian companies interested
in developing and implementing joint implementation projects
Exchanging information on joint implementation projects
criteria, results indicators and joint actions procedures.
Identifying and promoting joint implementation projects
aimed at mitigating GHG emissions.
Facilitating private sector investment in joint implementation
projects.
Supporting information exchange on public and private
sector organizations and companies interested in implementing environmental
projects in Ukraine and Canada.
II. Program
Management
A. Bilateral Links
Ukrainian and Canadian Management Subcommittees will
meet once in а half year (in Ottawa and Kyiv in turn) during the whole
life of the Program to review the progress achieved. Each second meeting
will be attended by CIDA representative and MEPNS higher executive officers
-signatories to the Memorandum. This will enhance the Program status both
in Ukraine and in Canada.
B. Functional Relations
a)CIDA-IPAC (institute of Public Administration of CANADA
b)IPAC (through IDRC office in Kyiv) - Ukrainian Management
Subcommittee - International Dnipro Fund.