KIEV, March 30 – Ukraine will receive UAH 4.5 billion, or $560 million in the U.S. dollar equivalent, from the sale of greenhouse gas emissions quotas to Japan, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Saturday on her visit to Japan.

"Contracts have been signed, the first transfers will arrive in April," she said.

Tymoshenko said that agreements were simultaneously reached on the comprehensive renovation and modernization by Japanese companies of Ukrainian boiler houses using natural gas, in order to raise the Ukrainian facilities' energy efficiency level.