Climate Financing in Ukraine
Abstract
To build an effective system for countering modern climate cataclysms, clear regulation and organization of climate financing are required for prevention, response, mitigation, and adaptation to climate change — one of the greatest challenges facing both humanity at large and the livelihoods and socio-economic development of individual countries. The effectiveness of these measures will depend on identifying problems, shortcomings, and unresolved issues in these areas in Ukraine, improving the legal and regulatory framework and existing climate financing mechanisms, as well as intensifying the search for additional funding sources and ensuring their efficient use.
The aim of the study is to analyze the institutional framework and the current state of climate financing in Ukraine, and to identify problems, shortcomings, and unresolved issues in these areas. The object of the research is the domestic climate finance market. A systematic approach, monographic and historical methods, as well as comparative and expert analysis methods have been used.
The article outlines the formation of institutional support and the development of climate financing in Ukraine, identifying existing problems in this field. The research results can be used to help shape the institutional framework and further develop climate financing in the country.
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