However, there has been a strong focus under the National Action Plan for Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol on the creation of a GHG inventory and supporting the development of carbon market mechanisms - namely Joint Implementation (JI) projects and the development of an Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS). In April 2017, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine presented a roadmap for the establishment of an ETS in the country7. A related draft law on Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) was published in early 2018. As of October 2015, 276 JI projects had been registered in Ukraine, w'ith more than 500 million Emission Reduction Units (ERUs) issued.6 Ukraine was also the fourth largest Assigned Amount Unit (AAU)7 seller by volume, w'ith 47 million AAUs contracted between 2008 and 2012.