| Over 120 journalists from 15 of Ukraine’s oblasts took part in a series of workshops called “Energy Efficiency and the Social Protection of the Populace in Conditions of Growing Tariffs for Media”. The seminars were organized by the USAID Municipal Energy Reform Project in cooperation with the Center for Ukrainian Reform Education and with sponsorship of the largest private gas extraction company of Ukraine Burisma Holdings. The Project experts are confident that it is important now to teach the Ukrainians how to consume available energy resources, and to change mentality towards responsible and energy saving behavior. And it should start with those who form the public opinion – the journalists. USAID MERP experts conducted two-day trainings for the journalists regarding energy efficiency in residential buildings, the energy potential of Ukraine, alternative energy sources, reasons of tariff increases, the government’s instruments for the social safety net, as well as about condominiums and programs on lending for energy efficiency in the residential sector. The experts believe that after the trainings the journalists will be able to cover these subjects in their articles, radio and TV programs more positively, responsibly and without partiality. |
