{"id":2441,"date":"2015-10-22T17:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:41:18","slug":"forum-on-energy-security-took-place-in-dnepropetrovsk-on-17-18-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"Forum on Energy Security took place in Dnepropetrovsk on 17-18, September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forum on Energy Security took place in Dnepropetrovsk on 17-18, September. It was organized by OSCE, Ukrainian Ecological Association Zelenyi Svit\/ Friends of the Earth Ukraine and Dnipropetrovsk\u00a0 Regional State Administration.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Ruslan Strilets\u2019 –\u00a0 Director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Olexiy Angurets- director of the regional office of Zelenyi Svit\/ Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Jennifer Betti \u2013 Deputy Head of SMM OSCE, J.A.Kazlas – \u200eMonitoring Officer at OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine <\/i><\/p>\n

Moderators hold a meeting in the form of a dialogue: the short speeches of the presenters were followed by\u00a0 debates on energy security problems and issues. Representatives of international\u00a0 organizations (OSCE, UNIDO, GIZ, UNO),\u00a0 local authority, non-governmental and ecological organizations (Zelenyi Svit\/ Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Voice of Nature, Community Cooperation, International Dnipro Fund (Nikopol branch)and others), business (DFEC, Promconversion, BDO), university lecturers (DNU after O.Gonchar, Civil Engineering Academy, National University of Mines), bloggers and activists. More than 70 participants took part in the meeting.<\/p>\n

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During the \u201cfirst dialog\u201d, Ighor Kyrylchuk, the representative of the UNIDO, focused his attention on the world crisis and the ways of overcoming it: to the\u00a0 program of consumption reduction of the energy dependent countries,\u00a0 businessmen, industry representatives and civil society representatives should be attracted. The engagement to the switch of the energy effective technologies such as \u201cgreen tariff\u201d, allowances, bonuses, certificates\u00a0\u00a0 is one of the important tools towards this direction.\u00a0\u00a0 Oleg Savitskyi, the member of the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine, pointed out that the present crisis has political, economic and ecological roots, and the reason of it is a limited access to the fossil resources. Climate changes due to the use of coal and that can endanger Ukrainian agriculture, its infrastructure elements.<\/p>\n

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During the second \u201cdialog\u201d Mariya Storchilo, the member of National Ecological Centre of Ukraine, tried to identify parallels between the use of fossil fuels and climate change on the planet. Grygoriy Shmatkov, Professor, the Head of Committee of Science and Technology at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of DRSA, insisted on transforming Ukraine from the raw material increase of GDP to the high-technology production, which does not require much resources. In this case the rise in economy doesn\u2019t correlate with the rise of contaminations.<\/p>\n

Bruce Rich, an expert in ecology, a well-known lawyer from Washington was invited for the \u201cthird dialog\u201d. He brought to Ukraine the latest data regarding international coal-mining companies. A lot of these companies are going bankrupt on the American market. International banks have postponed financing this direction, many of them are withdrawing their investments from these fields. SAR, that has much in common with Ukrainian energy system, is going to reduce significantly the percentage of coal plants in energy generation from 84% to 30% up to 2030.\u00a0 Statistics from the USA completely ruins the manipulative social employment aspect: 80,000 people are involved in the coal-mining sphere while alternative energy sector engages more than 220,000 employees.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Yuriy Ostryanyn \u2013 DFEC, J.A.Kazlas – \u200eMonitoring Officer at OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Bruce Rich \u2013 expert-ecologist, lawyer.<\/i><\/p>\n

The \u201cold school\u201d representatives Yuryi Ostryanyn (DFEC) and Professors of National University of Mines opposed the debates. They expressed their point of view insisting that\u00a0 the process of coal-mining is going to be under the way for more than 30 years as a lot of coal plants and working places base on it.<\/p>\n

This dialogue resulted in the longest\u00a0 debates. Director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Ruslan Strylets\u2019 recommended the DFEC representatives that they should launch alternative energy as one of the basic approaches of the company policy. That will help them be ready for the new market and have European strategy of development.<\/p>\n

Mar\u2019yana Katazarova, the Head of the UN Regional Office on Human Rights, asked the DFEC representatives about the shootings around the mines, salaries and pensions payments, monitoring of coal-mining and energy-generating emissions. The news about prolonging the terms of lifespan of the Chernobyl\u00a0 nuclear power plant unit on the territory of Ukraine raise worries.<\/p>\n

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Mar\u2019yana Katazarova \u2013 the Head of the UN Regional Office on Human Rights.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sustainable development was the issue for discussion in the fourth \u201cdialogue\u201d.\u00a0 Olexiy\u00a0 Angurets, \u00a0<\/i>director of the regional office of Zelenyi Svit\/ Friends of the Earth Ukraine stressed that Ukraine is facing an important choice. As Ukraine is a resources-dependent country, the question of its sovereignty will rise in case the sustainability conception is not going to be implemented now. According to Olexiy, the present crisis is a solid reason to reconsider the economy on the whole and estimate the real costs of productions which do not include entire cycle-process: from raw material extraction\u00a0 and wastes utilization to restoration of negative impact on people health and nature.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Irina Bryzshan\u2019 \u2013 German Society of International Cooperation, Almaz Usenov \u2013OSCE, Olexiy\u00a0 Angurets, Member of the Executive Committee, Friends of the Earth, Europe<\/i><\/p>\n

Director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Ruslan Strylets\u2019 was the next speaker. He pointed out two main issues for switching to sustainable development:<\/p>\n

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  1. Reforms implementation.\u00a0 Its no point copying the foreign models for solving their own problems, its worth putting into life our own reforms, targeting at solving Ukrainian problems.<\/li>\n
  2. Development of active society, which will initiate and control the changes planned.\u00a0Apart from it, the representative of the administration highlighted the fact that all changes in the economy should be consistent and foreseen: its dangerous to close down the enterprises as they function both as social-and-tax-payers and economy-and-infrastructure providers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The main objective should be the switch to ecologically safe activity.<\/p>\n

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    Irina Brizshan\u2019, German Society of International Cooperation, told about the engagement of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 medium and big enterprises into energy efficient technologies, about levels of influence on them and also about the current programs in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

    Vyctor Gasso, Associate Professor, ecotoxicologist\u00a0 from DNU after O. Gonchar, stressed his attention on the fact that the transformation to sustainability process should have its markers and purpose, that will ensure the implementation of the program. Conception will be successful if a happy and healthy Person will live into the stable ecosystems.<\/p>\n

    The second day of the event started from the \u201cdialogue 5\u201d: \u201cAlternative energy: The cutting-edge technological inventions.\u201d Pavlo Khazan, the coordinator of the campaign on sustainable energy of Zelenyi Svit\/ Friends of the Earth Ukraine reviewed the range of modern ecological ways of receiving energy. The speaker\u00a0 emphasized that the country should minimize consuming and use of nuclear power, natural gas, coal plants. The problem lies not only into ecological aspect but also in the factor that these sources have turned into the levers of political influence, they have become the weapons in hybrid war.<\/p>\n

    Sergyi Kamynskyi, the Manager of the project \u201cPromConversion\u201d told about the use of alternative energy in practice. He is a supervisor of many projects of energy efficiency, heads one of the branches of Mini Academy of Science. The following inventions were presented:<\/p>\n