Press Announcement

Interfax-Ukraine to host press conference 'If Tomorrow is Green Deal?'

On Thursday, April 22, at 11.00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a debut online conference within the Green Deal project titled "If Tomorrow is Green Deal?" To what extent is Ukraine ready for these new rules of the EU game, its major trading partner? What Ukraine can answer and what to offer within the gaining strength of the European "green" course and on the issue of the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), plan of emission reduction, new technologies.

Participants include

Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Oleksiy Riabchyn;
Deputy Energy Minister of Ukraine for European Integration Yaroslav Demchenkov;
Head of the Subcommittee on Climate Change and Protection of Atmospheric Air of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management Lesia Vasylenko;
Deputy Representative of Ukraine to the EU Roman Andarak;
Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Development Committee Coordinator of the European Business Association Olha Boiko;
Head of the Ukrainian Business and Trade Association (UBTA) Brussels office Nazar Bobytsky.

Question to the panellists may be asked by e-mail: [email protected] until 1800 on April 21, 2021.

The conference will be available on the YouTube channel of Interfax-Ukraine. During the period of the restrictive measures imposed in Kyiv due to COVID-19 pandemic, media representatives are not allowed in the agency's press center, only speakers are present. It is possible to follow the event and ask questions to the speakers in the broadcast chat.