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Title: Ukrainian Youth Climate Association (UMKA)

URL: http://world.350.org/ukraine/umka

Description: Ukrainian Youth Climate Association (UMKA) implements projects to unleash the potential of young activists as community leaders, "green" professionals, and future officials. In the fall of 2012 UMKA partners enlisted the support of more than 500 people from all over Ukraine. UMKA initiated independent teams in Kiev, Lviv, and Rivne that together and separately implemented more than 20 practical projects and campaigns on climate change. Ukrainian Youth Climate Association is a dynamic platform for development and interaction of sustainability change agents. We facilitate multi-stakeholder cooperation on pressing environmental issues and create opportunities for youth from across the country to kick-start their own sustainability projects. Working with like-minded partners we learn and share best practices to create a better Ukraine. Our aim for 2015 is create a critical mass of youth to tackle global environmental change and strengthen the social-ecological relationship. Our instruments are our projects: Take and make (or wake and bake) is a campaign of practical eco-interventions: start a project to make your city better, people – happier, and planet safer. Web-site: http://take-and-make.org.ua/; PowerShift Educational and Practical Forum, which aims to shift power to communities and implement practical projects for climate mitigation and adaptation. Web-site: http://powershift.org.ua/#!/; Sustainable lifestyles: a pathway to a healthy planet and low-carbon lifestyle for Ukrainians. The first wave was introduced in 2013; Sustainable livelihoods: We work with educational institutions, communities, and companies to create best practices for sustainability–-helping to create tool-libraries, eco-lofts etc.

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Subject:   Ukraine,  Climate ,  Conservation

Title: Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine (EEMU)

URL: http://www.enefcities.org.ua

Description: Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine (EEMU) a voluntary NGO, created to promote energy efficient principles among member municipalities. Our focus is transforming local economies into sustainable communities. We build relationships with key stakeholders on a local level to help communities achieve energy security, preserve the environment, improve local quality of life and continue along the path of sustainable development. Our awareness raising campaigns, informational support, seminars, workshops, consulting sessions, and projects are meant to improve the efficiency of energy consumption and lower energy bills; improve the quality of energy services and create a forecast for energy demand; increase investment in municipal energy efficiency projects and related infrastructure, and pioneer new financing methods; develop more effective institutional frameworks within local communities and implement efficient approaches to managing energy consumption, supply and production; and partake in national policy making pertaining to the implementation of European initiatives for energy security, sustainable development and environmental protection.

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Subject:   Energy Efficiency,  Climate ,  Ukraine

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