Ukraine removed from the list of breakers of the Kyoto Protocol procedures
Ukraine has informed the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee of the timely completion of all the measures specified in the compliance plan and of the discharge of its commitments under the first validity period of the Kyoto Protocol.
The Committee has come to the conclusion that the information provided was sufficient to resolve the issue of the Ukraine's compliance with the protocol requirements.
The relevant decision was passed at the meeting of the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee held on September 6 in Bonn (FRG), as reported by Ostap Semerak, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine.
He reminded that in 2015, the National Electronic Register of Anthropogenic Emissions and Absorption of Greenhouse Gases of Ukraine was deactivated through the refusal of the then management of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine to cooperate with the administrator of the National Electronic Register of Anthropogenic Emissions and Absorption of Greenhouse Gases, resulting in no information about the Ukraine's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol received in the central register from August.
"Despite the difficulties that arose through the deactivation of the National Electronic Register of Anthropogenic Emissions and Absorption of Greenhouse Gases in 2015, we have now found mechanisms that had allowed Ukraine to overcome the non-compliance under the Kyoto Protocol. In fact, this has been the concerted months-long efforts of a great number of people. I would like to express my appreciation to them for their active position in advocating the interests of our country. Finally we have obtained the long-awaited decision of the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee stating that the issue of the Ukraine's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol requirements had been resolved (literally - "is no longer at issue")", commented Ostap Semerak.
It is a reminder that the National Electronic Register of Anthropogenic Emissions and Absorption of Greenhouse Gases of Ukraine was deactivated in August 2015. In September 2016, the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee of the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted a decision on the Ukraine's failure to comply to the full extent with the reporting requirements under the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
