The Department of Strategic Development and Investment, together with the City Economy Department of the Rivne City Council's Executive Committee, submitted an application for participation in the All-Ukrainian contest "Best City" in the "Air" category, which is organized by the NGO "Ekodiya Center for Environmental Initiatives" with the support of the Swedish Society for Nature Protection, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Ukraine, the International Renaissance Foundation.
The competition is held with the aim of determining the best city of Ukraine from the point of view of sustainable development and environmental protection. Participation in the competition will allow not only to present the Rivne urban territorial community at the international and national levels, but also to participate, in the future, in the generalization and dissemination of the best Ukrainian and world practices in the field of sustainable urban development and environmental protection; exchange of experience between cities for the purpose of sustainable development and environmental protection; introduction of new improvement practices and implementation of sustainable development policy that takes into account environmental protection; participation in activities aimed at promoting sustainable development and environmental protection.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is a non-governmental resource organization that is part of the Green political movement of Germany and the EU. The fund has a network of representative offices in 60 countries of the world on four continents.