Eco-Ukraine
August 2010
(08/12/10)
The first-ever around the world event featuring electric cars will take place involving five teams from four continents: Switzerland, Spain, South Korea, Australia and the US, all of whom are taking up the challenge to complete the race in 80 days. In 2008, Louis Palmer became the first person ever to drive a solar-powered car around the world in a project known as the Solartaxi, taking 534 days to complete the circumnavigation and spread the powerful message that renewable energies are reliable, affordable and ecologically responsible! The Zero Race Adventure will start in Geneva, Switzerland, on 15 August 2010, and continue eastwards for a total distance of approximately 30,000 km. The 80-day event (excluding maritime crossings), will cross 16 countries with stops in approximately 150 major cities along the way. Zero Race will visit major cities including Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, Kyiv, Moscow, Astana, Shanghai, Vancouver, San Francisco, Austin and Madrid. The Zero Race will also visit the United Nations World Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of November and finish in Geneva in January 2011. At each Zero Race stop along the route, press conferences and events will be held to mark the attempt. For more information about the project in English, please click here.
Krasnodoncoal has generated €598 thsd within the framework of Kyoto Protocol
(08/03/10)
Krasnodoncoal OJSC has generated €598 thsd as proceeds from the sale of carbon credits within the framework of the first phase of the Mine Methane Utilization Project. The project was developed using the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. Its goals include improvement of miners' safety and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The proceeds will be used to develop degassing systems of coal mining subdivisions and raise the level of industrial safety. The proceeds have been transferred by the emissions buyer - ING Bank (the Netherlands) upon verification of the emissions reduction achieved in 2006-2008. Currently, verification of emissions as of 2009 and the first six months of 2010 has commenced. The Joint Implementation Project was started in 2006 at Suhodol'skoe-Vostochnoe mine. This is the first mine methane utilization project of Krasnodoncoal using the flexible Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. Krasnodoncoal's investments in this project have exceeded $1 mln. The total volume of reduced greenhouse gas emissions under the project will comprise around 300 thsd units of CO2 by the end of 2012. To learn more, please, click here.
"Green Office" in "Foxtrot" Celebrates One Year
(08/03/10)
One year ago, the "Green Office" program began its work in the managing office of the Foxtrot. On July 15, the Foxtrot Group of Companies celebrated its one-year anniversary of its "Green Office" program by celebrating "Green Day". On this day representatives of the head office of the Foxtrot Group of Companies collected and delivered for processing 1,240 kilos of used paper. The Company's first experience in green office activities was in May 2010 when two of FoxMart's Kyiv stores gathered 300 kilos of used paper. Monies received for used paper were transferred to the Novograd-Volynskyy Orphanage. To learn more in Ukrainian, please, click here.
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