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The Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre in Ukraine in cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has developed a joint video dedicated to gender equality and involving women to power industry and resource efficiency. The video offers to examine the role of women in these areas, become aware that good business development directly depends on the share of women and men in a company.

Five women in the video represent different organizations (UNIDO, Swiss Cooperation Office in Ukraine, Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre, Women Energy Club of Ukraine, State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving). They claim that gender equality and women’s empowerment have a positive impact on the inclusive and sustainable development of industry, especially in energy sector and resource efficiency. Women are the agents of change in all spheres of social life and they believe it is necessary to change our attitude to gender balance in the world today, involving men as well. Gender equality allows both men and women to contribute equally to economic, political, social and cultural development of the nation.

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On 27 May 2021, Bila Tserkva town hosted the first awareness raising workshop within the Global Eco-Industrial Parks Programme in Ukraine (GEIPP) and motivated manufacturing companies belonging to Bilotserkivskyi Vantazhnyi Aviatsiynyi Kompleks (BVAK) join the “GEIPP Ukraine” Project. Among others, BVAK management and the production enterprises located on its territory, representatives of the Bila Tserkva Town Council, RECP Centre, and the “GEIPP Ukraine” project became the participants of the workshop.

The Head of Economics Department at Bila Tserkva Town Council opened the workshop and addressed the participants with an encouraging speech about the benefits that society and businesses can get in the future through participation in the “GEIPP Ukraine”. She also expressed her full support to the project implementation on the basis of BVAK. Read More

On April 29, 2021 an online consultation workshop was held in the framework of the preparatory phase of the UNIDO project “The Global Greenchem Innovation and Network Programme” (Greenchem) in Ukraine funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This international project is prepared by UNIDO and Yale University with the support of the National Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centres in Ukraine, Serbia, Peru, Indonesia, Jordan and Uganda. In Ukraine, the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre (RECP Centre) is involved in the preparation of this project with the support of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine. Read More

Waste Mapping has started in Ukraine within the framework of “Circular Economy and New Growth Opportunities” Component of the EU-funded “EU4Environment” Action. The Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre (RECP Centre) is the national partner for United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in implementing this component.

The main purpose of waste mapping is identification, assessment and mapping waste generation at industrial enterprises in the selected pilot communities in order to develop resource efficiency measures based on circular economy practices.

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The annual Advisory Board (AB) meeting organized online by the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre in Ukraine took place on March 25, 2021. The representatives of target ministries, international organizations, financial institutions, industrial enterprises, the group of stakeholders of the EU4Environment Action and other stakeholders participated in the event. Viacheslav Bykovets, Vice-President of the Union of Entrepreneurs of Small, Middle-Sized and Privatized Enterprises was elected the Chairman of the Meeting. Read More

The kick-off stakeholders meeting on the “Circular Economy and New Growth Opportunities” component of the EU4Environment Action in Ukraine took place on 25 February 2021. The online event was targeted on presenting the progress made during 2019-2020 and on introducing the plans for the future.

The event was organized by the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre with the support of UNIDO as part of the implementation of the EU-funded EU4Environment program.

The online event began with the short welcome addresses delivered by the representatives of the Ukrainian ministries, the EU Delegation and UNIDO. Read More

The RECP Centre calls for industrial companies to enhance their own resource efficiency and join the EU4Environment programme (financed by the EU).

Participation in the Programme will bring the following benefits: Read More

 

On December 16, 2020, the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre hold the national online conference “Ecomoderization of Ukrainian industry: from resource efficiency to circular economy”. It became a landmark event for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) project “Promoting the Adaptation and Adoption of Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production through the Establishment and Operation of a Cleaner Production Centre in Ukraine” and for the Cleaner Production Centre (Centre). The project was implemented in Ukraine from 2013 to 2020 and aimed at promoting more efficient and rational use of resources in industry, enhancing the competitiveness of Ukrainian enterprises and reducing the environmental impact. Read More

A 2-day training aimed to highlight gender issues in greening the national industry were held on November 25-26, 2020. In the context of gender mainstreaming to the EU-funded Programme “European Union for Environment” (EU4Environment), the Training Workshop Series on Gender Sensitization in Greening the National Industry was carried out by UNIDO as a part of its work on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) and Circular Economy in the six countries of the Eastern Partnership region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine. Read More

On 12 November 2020, the planned online-event “Industrial Resource Efficiency in the Eastern Region of Ukraine” was held to familiarize participants with the practical aspects of the resource efficiency implementation in the Eastern region, to indicate the characteristics of the work in the target region, as well as providing online education for sustainable development and sustainable business processes for SMEs and so forth.
The event was moderated by Ivan Omelchuk, Regional Coordinator of the RECP Centre in the Eastern region of Ukraine. Read More