UK Environment for Europe Fund

UK Environment for Europe Fund

with support from

the Institute for Market Studies, Economics and Ecologyof the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

PROGRAMME

OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

«Wetlands as a means of mitigating the impacts of climate change

and enhancing regional development in the Azov-Black Sea Region of Ukraine»

May 18-19, 2004, Odessa

May 18

PLACE: /

Conference hall of the Institute for Market Studies, Economics and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (29 French Boulevard)

09.30 – / 10.00 /

Registration

10.00 – / 10.45 / Greetings and introduction
Nikolai Tyndiuk / 1st Deputy Chairman
of Odessa Regional State Administration
Georgy Busiyan / Deputy of Odessa Regional Council, Chairman of the Commission for Environment of ORC
Boris Burkinsky / Director of the Institute for Market Studies, Economics and Ecology of the NASU. Full member of the NASU.
Jane Taussik / UK representative of the project
Igor Studennikov / Executive Director of Centre for Regional Studies
Session 1: / «Global climate change and its impact on spatial development»
Chairman: / Igor Studennikov
10.45 – / 11.00 / Jane Taussik / Responding to the impacts of climate change
11.00 – / 11.15 / Anatoly Polevoy / Climate change on agriculture in the South of Ukraine
11.15 – / 11.30 / Inessa Loeva / The law of Ukraine in the field of the mitigation of climate change
11.30 – / 11.45 / Natasha Barker / Accepting the change? Practical examples of mitigation for climate change
11.45 – / 12.00 / Oleg Dyakov / Wetlands’ contribution to climate change
12.00 – / 12.15 / Tea/coffee break
Session 2: / «Institutional instruments for wetland management and sustainable regional development»
Chairman: / Jane Taussik
12.15 – / 12.30 / Grigory Parchuk / The role of the State Agency for Protected Areas of the Ministry of Protection of the Environment of Ukraine in the Azov-Black Sea wetlands’ management
12.30 – / 12.45 / Olga Gutsal / The creation of protected areas within the Azov-Black Sea wetlands as the prerequisite of their conservation
12.45 – / 13.00 / Valery Siokhin / The World Bank/GEF project “Conservation of biodiversity in the Azov-Black Sea Corridor”
13.00 – / 13.15 / Konstantin Belousov / Wetland management in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
13.15 – / 13.30 / Gennady Molodan / The experience in wetland management within protected areas (the example of the Regional landscape park “Meotida”)
13.30 – / 15.00 / Lunch
Session 3: / «International cooperation for the sustainable development and wise use of the Azov-Black Sea wetlands»
Chairman: / Natasha Barker
15.00 – / 15.15 / Victor Kyrylenko / The British Council Ukraine and its activities aimed at the sustainable development
15.15 – / 15.30 / Anatoly Kostiushin / Wetlands International and the sustainable management of the Azov-Black Sea wetlands
15.30 – / 15.45 / Mikhail Nesterenko / WWF’s Climate Programme and its interaction with other activities
Session 4: / «The Azov-Black Sea Region as a pilot area for the assessment of wetlands’ contribution to global climate change»
Chairman: / Galina Minicheva
15.45 – / 16.00 / Yuri Shuiskiy / Global warming and its impacts on the Azov-Black coastal area of Ukraine
16.00 – / 16.15 / Sergey Podorozhniy,
Dmitry Dubyna / Distribution of wetland vegetation in the Azov-Black Sea Region
16.15 – / 16.30 / Еlena Popova / Volume of carbon sink by wetland vegetation in the Azov-Black Sea Region
16.30 – / 16.45 / Tea/coffee break
16.45 – / 17.00 / Boris Alexandrov,
Galina Minicheva / The assessment of a volume of carbon sink by phytoplankton and macrophyts of the Azov-Black Sea wetlands
17.00 – / 17.15 / Yuri Sokolov / Global climate change and the strategy for flood protection on the rivers of the South of Ukraine
17.15 – / 17.30 / Oleg Rubel / The sustainable management of the Azov-Black Sea wetlands: tool kit and approaches
17.30 – / 18.00 / Conclusions
19.00 /

Dinner

May 19

ROUND TABLE

«Principles and approaches to the creation of

a network for the sustainable management of the Azov-Black Sea wetlands»

PLACE: /

Conference hall of Yanush Korchak Institute (3-a Gaidar Str.)

Chairmen: / Igor Studennikov
Natasha Barker
10.00 – / 10.45 / Experience and good practice in the creation of networks and their activities’ development
Oleg Derkach / The creation and activities of the Black Sea Regional Network of NGOs
Anatoly Kostiushin / The experience of the creation of the network “The Rivers of Ukraine”
Peter Gritsyshyn / The Danube Environmental Forum (DEF)
10.45 – / 11.00 / Tea/coffee break
11.00 – / 12.30 / Discussing organisational forms and principles of functioning of a network for the sustainable management of the Azov-Black Sea wetlands. Signing a protocol on its creation.
12.00 – / 13.00 /

Conclusions

13.00 – / 14.00 / Lunch

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Improving Opportunities for the Sustainable Management of the Ukrainian Black Sea and Azov Wetlands and the Mitigation of the Effects of Climate Change

The project conducted by the Centre for Regional Studies and funded by

UK’s DEFRA and the UK Environment for Europe Fund