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Baku, Azerbaijan – 19 November 2024
1. Various of Ukrainian nationals holding signs to mark 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion before press conference
2. Svitlana Grynchuk, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Energy, entering press conference
3. Wide of press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Svitlana Grynchuk, Ukraine’s Environment Minister:
"We try to continue reducing CO2 emissions, we try to implement our climate policy but at the same time we have every day explosions, we have every day forest fires, we have every day contamination of our water and land resources and we have additional and additional pollution. We have additional and additional emissions."
5. Various of media during Ukraine press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Svitlana Grynchuk, Ukraine’s Environment Minister:
"Russia helped us with our phaseout of coal because they destroyed almost all our thermal generation. But it’s transition, but it’s not fair, not just transition. Now we understand that we need to build a more decentralized, more resilient energy system and the best solution here is small-scale renewables."
7. Mid of couple embracing after demonstration marking 1,000 days of war
STORYLINE:
Ukraine’s Environment Minister Svitlana Grynchuk discussed the country’s energy future on Tuesday.
Speaking during a news conference while attending the UN’s climate talks in Azerbaijan, and on the day the world marked 1,000 days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Grynchuk said Kyiv was trying to reduce it’s CO2 emissions while also fighting off Moscow’s forces.
"We try to implement our climate policy but at the same time we have every day explosions," she said.
"We have every day forest fires, we have every day contamination of our water and land resources and we have additional and additional pollution. We have additional and additional emissions."
This year, Russian missile attacks have knocked out about 50% of Ukraine’s power generation, a major threat as winter looms.
Energy companies say they have been able to quickly restore power after many attacks, thanks to the decentralized nature of renewable energy like wind and solar.
In centralized systems like coal-fired plants, electricity is generated in one location.
If one part fails, say from an attack, a large section of grid can go down.
By contrast, in wind and solar installations, each turbine or panel separately generates electricity. If some go down, others continue working.
Whatever the future, the decentralized nature of some clean energies, in particular wind and solar, has allowed Ukraine to quickly restore power in ways that would be impossible with Ukraine’s more traditional energy sources, such as coal-fired power plants.
"Russia helped us with our phaseout of coal because they destroyed almost all our thermal generation…it’s transition, but it’s not fair, not just transition," Grynchuk said.
"Now we understand that we need to build a more decentralized, more resilient energy system and the best solution here is small-scale renewables."
AP video shot by Joshua A. Bickel
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