The Project aims at mobilizing community of Lugansk to actively participate in developing the sustainable development strategy of the region as well decrease information barriers related to climate change and strengthening the community participation. Started during soviet industrial revolution environment pollution processes nowadays, have ecological disaster scale, even in spite of death of big part of oblast industry. Moreover chemical and metal/steel giants? danger emissions not only in atmosphere but in regions water basin bastardize difficult situation with water supply of oblast?s population. Conversion in coal mining industry brought abandoned coal mines that nowadays brought in region: waterlogging, mine dump burning, radioactive waists, etc.
The major Project activities will include: strategic planning, identifying system of measures for Lugansk region (based on world experience in industrial regions) to decrease CC impact and introduce adaptation practice. The Project will build the first regional Climate Change network of CBOs and jointly lobby implementing plan of actions for the local people to adopt to CC. Big regional awareness raising campaigns, public hearings are planned in the framework of the Project, public-private partnerships will be developed through joint work with the local government and industrial enterprises (known to produce big emissions in the region).