Title: Kyiv Cyclists' Association (AVK)

URL: http://avk.org.ua/

Description: The Kyiv Cyclists’ Association (AVK) is a non-profit, non-partisan member organization that works to strengthen the voice of current and potential cyclists and to promote cycling as a sustainable, safe, and fun mode of urban transportation. AVK works mostly in Kyiv but actively cooperates with NGOs, cycling activists, and city councils in other Ukrainian cities, as well as cycling advocates in wider Europe. Its main areas of work are: advocacy in Kyiv (regarding street reconstructions, maintenance of existing cycling infrastructure, development of cycling plans for Kyiv districts, ect); advocacy at the national level (revision of cycling-related legislation, capacity-building in city councils and local NGOs on cycling, sharing knowledge and best practices for infrastructure development and promotion of cycling); building public enthusiasm for urban cycling (Bike Mentor Program, annual cycling-friendly employer award, bicycle rides and events in Kyiv and other cities).

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Subject:   Cycling,  Transport

Title: Green Dossier

URL: http://dossier.org.ua/

Description: International Charitable Organization "Information Center" Green Dossier " operates on the principles of legality, humanity, common interests and equal rights of participants, openness, voluntary and government, not with a view to profit. "Green Dossier" occupies a unique position: a bridge between environmental NGOs, businesses, public institutions and the media - for creative cooperation and achieve positive change.

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Subject:   European union,  Green economy,  Climate change

Title: Environment People Law (EPL)

URL: http://epl.org.ua/

Description: International public interest environmental law organization Environment People Law (EPL) was founded in 1994 with the aim of helping to protect the environmental rights of citizens and organizations and to promote the protection of nature, environmental education, and science and culture. Its mission is the rule of law for environmental protection Its activities include advocacy, law drafting, analysis, and lawyer training. EPL offers a clinical environmental law program for students of Law at Ivan Franko National University.

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Subject:   Environmental justice,  Environmental law

Title: EcoClub "Eremurus"

URL: http://eremurus.org/

Description: EcoClub "Eremurus" was created in 1982 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Its goal is to educate individuals and society about sustainable development. Its main activities are environmental education and promotion of environmental awareness and the protection of nature. In terms of education, the group runs and provides support to ecological Sunday schools and summer camps; teacher trainings; newsletters; and festivals and competitions. It also supports work in national parks and nature preserves, such as tree planting, animal surveys, geobotanic mapping, clean-up campaigns, and raids for the protection of rare or endangered species. The group's research initiatives include the observation of animals and plants - size, condition, etc. EcoClub "Eremurus" has participated in the international education project SPARE in Uzbekistan since 2000 and in Ukraine since 2001.

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Title: Ukrainian Youth Climate Association (UMKA)

URL: http://go-umka.org/

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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Title: MAMA-86

URL: http://mama-86.org.ua/archive/index.htm

Description: In 1990 a group of young mothers with university education were concerned about the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on public health and united to protect the interests of their children. Since 1991 the group has been known as Kiev City NGO MAMA-86 Kyiv. Today the organization consists of 17 regional centers in Kyiv, Kyiv region, Donetsk region Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Lutsk, Mykolayiv, beautiful ancient city of Chernihiv Region, New Kahovka Kherson region, Poltava, Sumy, Sumy, Tatarbunary Odessa region, Ternopil, Feodosia, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky and Yaremcha Ivano- Frankivsk region. The central office is located in the city of Kyiv. The purpose of MAMA-86 is to promote greening policies and practices in Ukraine in order to transition the country to sustainable development - that is, development that does not harm current generations and leaves a positive legacy. The mission of our organization is strengthening the role of mothers in education and society in the process of decision-making to improve the living standards of citizens.

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Subject:   Environmental policy,  Children,  Women

Title: National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU)

URL: http://necu.org.ua/

Description: National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU) is a non- governmental not-for-profit organization created in 1991 when Ukraine has obtained independence. NECU consolidates individuals for common action to protect the environment. Among NECU members are scientists, journalists, artists, students and other people who are willing to add their own effort to environmental protection. The organization has branches in a dozen of Ukrainian cities. NECU works to bring environmental consideration into the core of any decision. We aim to bring concerns of local population and experts to the politicians, to redesign strategies and projects. We work both to save nature, by maintaining and creating new protected areas, and to decrease human impact on environment, through policy changes in energy and transport sectors.

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Subject:   Banks,  Nuclear energy,  Energy

Title: Voice of Nature: Dneprodzerzhinskaya Public Ecological Organization

URL: http://voice.dp.ua/

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Title: Working Groups of Environmental NGOs on Climate Change

URL: http://voice.dp.ua/ua/organizations.htm

Description: The Working Group of Environmental NGOs on Climate Change is a network of non-governmental organizations. The purpose of the WG IMS is to promote the preservation of the planet's climate through education and public participation in the development and implementation of environmental policy in Ukraine. The WG IMS requests information from public authorities and the administration, local self-government officials, the media, the public and other organizations to assess measures taken to prevent global climate change; conducts photographic and art exhibitions, publishes informational books, organizes competitions and music festivals to publicize the causes and effects of climate change; conducts aggressive action to attract the attention of citizens and public authorities to the problem of climate change; provides information on its activities to the national and foreign media; initiates or maintains litigation in the courts, in cases where the rights of citizens on issues related to climate protection.

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Subject:   Networking and coordinating,  Climate change

URL: http://wdc.org.ua/

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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: Bakhmat Ecological and Cultural Center

URL: http://www.bakhmat.org/

Description: Founded in 1995 in Donetsk.

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Title: All-Ukrainian Environmental League (VEL)

URL: http://www.ecoleague.net/index.php

Description: The All-Ukrainian Ecological League (VEL) is an NGO, founded on December 12, 1997. Its purposes are are: to improve the environmental situation in Ukraine through the formation of a new environmental philosophy and environmental rights; to create a foundation for sustainable development in Ukraine; to build a civil society in Ukraine, based on universal values and principles of environmental ethics; to protect - Building of civil society in Ukraine, based on universal values ​​and principles of environmental ethics. The main objectives of VEL are: to expand public participation in national environmental policy and submit proposals for the improvement of environmental legislation; to influence national and local plans, budgets, and development programs that are crucial for environmental stabilization and improvement; to provide protection and restoration of the environment, biodiversity, and health of the citizens of Ukraine; to promote the integration of the environmental component in all sectors of public life and the economy; to organize public control over the implementation of environmental legislation; to carry out measures aimed at curbing the activities that threaten environmental security, biodiversity and health of the citizens of Ukrainee; to promote environmental awareness through the promotion of knowledge of the environment, improvement of environmental education and culture; to facilitate the development and introduction of energy-saving technologies in all sectors of economic activity.

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Subject:   Environmental protection,  Sustainable development,  Public policy,  Environmental education

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

Title: MAMA-86

URL: http://www.mama-86.org.ua/

Description: In 1990 a group of young mothers with university education were concerned about the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on public health and united to protect the interests of their children. Since 1991 the group has been known as Kiev City NGO MAMA-86 Kyiv. Today the organization consists of 17 regional centers in Kyiv, Kyiv region, Donetsk region Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Lutsk, Mykolayiv, beautiful ancient city of Chernihiv Region, New Kahovka Kherson region, Poltava, Sumy, Sumy, Tatarbunary Odessa region, Ternopil, Feodosia, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky and Yaremcha Ivano- Frankivsk region. The central office is located in the city of Kyiv. The purpose of MAMA-86 is to promote greening policies and practices in Ukraine in order to transition the country to sustainable development - that is, development that does not harm current generations and leaves a positive legacy. The mission of our organization is strengthening the role of mothers in education and society in the process of decision-making to improve the living standards of citizens.

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Subject:   Environmental policy,  Children,  Women

Title: Zhiva Planeta

URL: http://www.zhiva-planeta.org.ua/

Description: The mission of the Ukrainian public organization "Living Planet" is the development of environmental democracy and improving the environment and quality of life in Ukraine.

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Subject:   Environmental protection,  Ukraine,  Sustainable Development