Events and Announcements

  EPL representatives met with staff of Swedish EPA in their beautiful and comfortable modern office in Stockholm, which confirms EPA’s commitments for climate neutrality and sustainability and innovations. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency conducts and coordinates Sweden’s environmental work. Together with many others, they work to preserve biodiversity, reduce climate impact and contribute to…

In our advocacy tour to Stockhom, Sweden, EPL representatives met with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), one of the biggest environmental think tank in the world. SEI has its headquarters in Stockholm (Sweden) and centres in Bangkok (Thailand), Boston, Davis, and Seattle (US), Oxford and York (UK), Tallinn (Estonia), Nairobi (Kenya) and Bogota (Colombia). The SEI…

On 13 May 2024, EEB celebrated its 50th Anniversary and conducted the Annual Conference devoted to overview of EEB’s long way and plans for the future. Since next European Parliamentary elections will be conducted in early June 2024, it is vitally important to have a strong vision for environmental policy and legislation priorities to guide…

On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as the ECHR) ruled in three cases directly related to climate change. This day will definitely go down in the history of both the climate movement and the human rights movement. In view of the importance and a kind of precedent nature…

Our organization was founded on March 24, 1994 as “Ekopravo – Lviv” Charitable Foundation. Later, we transformed into International Charitable Organization “Environment-People-Law” and became EPL. Our goal is to protect the environment and the rights of citizens to a safe environment in Ukraine using law tools. At the beginning of our activity, we had three…

  The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) took place from 26 February to 1 March 2024 at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. On 24 February 2024, on the 2nd anniversary of the launch of the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, the preliminary consultations with civil society…

  The second day of the Annual Meeting of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide that is currently taking place in the USA was devoted to environmental impact assessment (EIA). Although the event brought together legal practitioners and scientists from nearly fifty countries across the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe, the quality of environmental impact…

The Annual Meeting of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide has begun. The Alliance brings together public interest lawyers from 70 countries that are the most talented environmental lawyers–practitioners, environmental lawyers–scientists, scientists in the area of environmental protection who have chosen nature conservation, protection of human rights to clean water and clean air as their life’s…

  EPL welcomes the initiatives of the state of Ukraine represented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (hereinafter – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (hereinafter – the Ministry of Justice), which are aimed at launching a special ad hoc tribunal against Russia in the context of…

EPL representatives took part in the international forum “United for Nature. Agenda for Ukraine” organized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine. In times of war, when Ukraine is going through the most difficult trials, we must not forget that environmental security is part of national security that our military fight…