Chernobyl Shelter Fund

The Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF) was set up in 1997 at the EBRD to assist Ukraine in transforming the existing shelter over Chernobyl's destroyed unit 4 to a stable and environmentally safe state. To achieve this goal, the CSF finances the implementation of the so-called Shelter Implementation Plan (SIP) which was elaborated by Western and Ukrainian experts in 1997 as a step-by-step solution to the current situation at Chernobyl.

The initiative for the establishment of the Fund has been lead by the G7 governments and the European Community since it was announced at the G7 summit in 1997 (Denver). At the G7 summit of 1999 (Cologne) the initial pledges of USD 300 million were nearly doubled.

Donor commitments

More concerned governments declared their will to support the CSF at the pledging conferences in November 1997 (New York) and July 2000 (Berlin) and at an event in May 2005 (London).

The following contributors have provided at least the minimum amount to become members: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The following countries have made donations: Iceland, Israel, Korea, Portugal, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.