IV International coal conferece

PROGRAM AND PARTICIPANTS

OPENING REMARKS

• Mr. Oleksiy Chernyshov, Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine
• H.E. Bartosz Cichocki, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine
• Mr. Oleksandr Aziukovskyi, Rector, Dnipro University of Technology

SESSION 1.

ACHIEVING CARBON NEUTRALITY AND LEVERAGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR СOAL COMMUNITIES

Moderated by Dr. Olena Balbekova, Economic, Energy and Climate Change Adviser, British
Embassy Kyiv

• Ms. Iryna Stavchuk, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection
• Ms. Jasmina Trhulj, Head of Electricity Unit, Energy Community Secretariat
• Ms. Ima Khrenova-Shymkiva, Deputy Director, Energy Efficiency Reforms Project, GIZ
  Ukraine
• Ms. Samantha Smith, Director, Just Transition Centre, International Trade Union Confederation
• Mr. Nick Butler, visiting Professor and Chair of the Kings Policy Institute at Kings College
  London
• Prof. Dr. Sc. Volodymyr Bondarenko, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering and
  Education, Dnipro University of Technology
• Dr. Natalia Slobodian, Head of the Department on climate change and ecology, DTEK

SESSION 2.

COAL MINING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION

Moderated by Mr.Yurii Cherednichenko, Director, Bilozerska mine

• Mr. Oleksiy Kurakov, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy of Ukraine
• Mr. Brian Ricketts, Secretary General of EURACOAL
• Mr. Mykhailo Barabash, DTEK Energy, Coal production director, PhD
• Mr. Oleksiy Janzhula, Technology Director of Pokrovska Mine
• Mr. Anatoliy Bulat, Director, M. S. Polyakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics National Academy of Science
• Mr. Hennadyi Pіvniak, Chair of the Scientific Council, Dnipro University of Technology
• Mr. Mykhailo Volynets, Chairman, Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine
• Mr. Serhiy Yunak, Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Territorial Committee of the Trade Union of Coal
  Industry Workers of Ukraine,
• Volodymyr Omelchenko, Director of Energy Programmes, Razumkov Centre

HIGH-LEVEL PANEL

• Mr. Denys Shmyhal, Prime-Minister of Ukraine
• Mr. Stanislaw Tillich, Special envoy of the Government of Germany on structural changes for
  Ukrainian coal regions
• Mr. Vladimir Budinsky, President of EURACOAL
• Mr. Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK

SESSION 3.

JUST TRANSITION FOR THE COAL REGIONS. POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION OF MONO-TOWNS

Moderated by – Mr. Oleh Demchuk, ASTAR NGO

• Mr. Ivan Lukeria, Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine
• Mr. George Cristodorescu, GIZ Energy&Climate Cluster
• Mr. Lex Huurdeman, lead on engagements in Ukraine on a Just transition for Coal Regions, World
  Bank
• Ms. Elodie Salle, Secretariat for the Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans
  and Ukraine
• Ms. Viktoria Hryb, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, chairwoman of interfactional parliamentary platform on just transition for coal regions
• Ms. Tetiana Overina, COO DTEK Energy
• Mr. Oleksandr Brykalov, Mayor of Myrnohrad, Donetsk region

CLOSING REMARKS

• Ms. Valentyna Moskalenko, Advisor on regional policy to the Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Mr. Stanislaw Tillich, Special envoy of the Government of Germany on structural changes for
  Ukrainian coal regions
• Mr. Torsten Wöllert, Minister Counsellor – Energy, EU Delegation to Ukraine

ORGANIZERS

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

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