Ukraine

National flag
Signatories
359 (217)
Total country population
42,400,000
Population of SIGNs
21,432,746
%
50.55%

General information

Official Name

Ukraine

Capital

Kyiv

Total land area

603 628 km²

Urbanization

70.1% of total population

Covenant Coordinators

14

Covenant Supporters

3

5 largest municipalities:

Kyiv — 2 797 600 CoM SIGN

Kharkiv — 1 430 900

Dnipro — 1 032 800

Donetsk — 1 024 700

Odessa — 1 001 600

Map of Signatories

Country Office

Country Experts

Country Expert for Ukraine

Ms Oksana Kysil has a wealth of experience in fields related to the topics of the CoM initiative. Her expertise covers such issues as UA energy legislation, climate, and environmental policies (mitigation and adaptation) on state, regional and local levels; economic analysis of mitigation and adaptation projects of municipal infrastructure with various scenario and donors’/IFIs needs for investment; monitoring and evaluation of project results including GHG emissions. During the last 5 years, Ms Kysil was a Country Expert for Ukraine in the frame of the CoM East II project. She assisted UA SIGNS in adhesion procedure, elaboration of BEI/RVA/SECAP and monitoring, as well as development of bankable project for its further financing by IFIs and donors.

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Country Expert for Ukraine

Vitaliy Volkov has more than 15 years of experience in project management in the field of energy efficiency, where the main beneficiaries are local governments. He is well versed in the methodology of the Covenant of Mayors through his work in the first Ukrainian support structure and participation in international technical assistance projects.

His main assignment in the project is to provides advisory support to the signatory communities of the Covenant of Mayors in compiling a baseline emission survey, setting targets and developing measures to mitigate climate change, monitoring the implementation of the SEAP and working with the online platform MyCovenant.

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