Exhibition Eco & Green Expo first ever inaugurated at Moldexpo exhibition centre

Chisinau, 8 September /MOLDPRES/ - The exhibition Eco & Green Expo, organized in Moldova for the first time ever, was inaugurated at the Moldexpo International Exhibition Centre today. Over 30,000 companies of Moldova and from abroad, which work in the field of green economy and ecological products and services, will participate in the event.  The exhibition is staged during three days, on 8-10 September.     

The exhibition is held on an area of 2,000 square metres. Innovations in the sector, waste recycling, sanitation technologies, alternative energy sources, ecological transport, fuel supply stations for it, ecological businesses, their crediting, producers of ecological food products are promoted in the stands of the participants in the exhibition. The organizers used only ecological materials for the arrangement of the event.      

The state secretary at the Environment Ministry, Grigore Stratulat, said the new exhibition project was meant to support the regional and world tendencies in terms of environmental protection, promotion of the green economy and transition to circular economy. The official informed that the status of country candidate for accession to EU gave Moldova multiple opportunities for the promotion of the green economy.      

Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Moldova Daniela Gasparikova said that the technologies the participants in the exhibition would be able to discover became more and more accessible and cheaper and were promoters to new ecological technological solutions in Moldova and were important especially given that Moldova took the commitment to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gas by 70 per cent till 2023.  „We hope that, through the contribution of new programmes, due to be launched with EU’s financing, such as the Rabla (Old Stuff) programme, which implies the recycling of household appliances, about 60,000 households from Moldova will become more efficient from the energy viewpoint and will manage to reduce the size of the invoices for energy resources,’’ Daniela Gasparikova said.    

The Moldexpo director general, Carolina Chiper, said that the launch of the new exhibition project had been a big challenge both for the organizers and the participants. The Moldexpo head expressed confidence that Eco Green Expo would become a tradition for Moldova and that it would have an important contribution to the education and persuading of citizens to take care of the environment.    

The head of the Cooperation Section at the European Union’s Delegation in Moldova, Adam Grodzichi, said that, at present, there was a huge demand for ecological solutions of cutting the consumption of energy in the world, given the limited energy resources. In the context, EU promotes more instruments which imply the gradual removal from market of equipment with low performance and promotion of innovating solutions, which will allow reducing the energy consumption.     

The exhibition forum includes also a rich schedule of seminars, activities of promotion of ecological actions, technologies, products and services, organized by the Environment Ministry and Green City lab Moldova, which are the event’s co-organizers. At the same time, the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA) provides subsidy support to the participants in the exhibition. Eco & Green Expo is organized in partnership with the Moldova Future Technologies Activity Project, USAID Moldova, UNDP Moldova and diplomatic missions accredited in Chisinau.