Yesterday, a meeting of the Dialogue Group on Responsibility for Events in Ukraine took place focusing on actions of regional and international institutions. The Dalogue Group includes representatives of the International Criminal Court, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, scientists, civil society experts from the EU, Latin America, etc. The Dialogue Group session was dedicated…

On June 25-27, EPL team conducted a survey of the Svydovets mountain range in the Carpathians. This range still has some of the best-preserved natural complexes in the Ukrainian Carpathians, an extremely interesting geological structure and lakes of glacial origin, which have the status of hydrological monuments of nature. Svydovets is home to a wide…

EPL participated in developing the concept and moderating the workshop at the conference in Gdansk entitled “Green Recovery of Ukraine: Practical Steps, Challenges and Opportunities.” Ukrainian society aims to recover from the consequences of Russian armed aggression in a green manner, and nature conservation is the foundation and integral part of this process. Therefore, there…

The official opening of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk on June 25, 2026 was attended by the Prime Ministers of Ukraine and Poland, as well as numerous prime ministers from various countries – Austria and Germany, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The prime ministers of the Baltic states emphasized the need for more active…

On June 24, the first civil society forum was held at the European Solidarity Center gathering a large number of representatives of mostly civil society organizations from Ukraine related to reconstruction issues and working in the areas of environmental protection, cooperation with communities, youth movements, journalism and information security, human rights protection and many others….

  ICO “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) continues to cooperate with the European Commission on issues of institutional capacity of government bodies in the field of environmental protection and Ukraine’s fulfillment of its obligations within the framework of the process of accession to the European Union. In response to EPL’s appeal regarding the institutional capacity in the environmental…

The Shostka City District Court of Sumy Region fully satisfied the claim of the ICO “Environment-People-Law” and the National Nature Park “Desniansko-Starohutsky” to the Russian Federation for compensation for environmental damage caused as a result of armed aggression and recovered over UAH 6.1 million in damages from Russia. This case was one of the first…

Resume Ukraine has made some progress in approximating the EU environmental acquis under Chapter 27, but a key challenge remains the gap between formal transposition of legislation and its practical implementation. Despite the adoption of a number of framework laws and strategic documents, the institutional capacity of environmental governance remains insufficient due to ongoing deregulation,…

On May 29, 2026, there was held the training “Specifics of War Crimes Against the Environment and Ecocide” dedicated to the current issues of qualification, investigation and documentation of crimes against the environment committed during the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The event was organized by the International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) jointly…

EPL employees Kateryna Polyanska and Olena Kravchenko, together with specialists from the nature conservation sector of the Khortytsia National Reserve Mykhailo Mulenko and Iryna Mikhina, visited monitoring sites established in 2024 to study changes in the natural ecosystems of the Dnipro Rapids National Zoological Reserve as a result of the impact of military operations. The…

On April 1, 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 438, by which it approved National Program for the Adaptation of Ukrainian Legislation to European Union Law (EU acquis) (hereinafter – the Program). This document is an important element of the negotiation process on Ukraine’s accession to the EU and actually determines…

Representatives of the International Charitable Organization “Environment–People–Law” took part in a series of professional events in Finland focused on the environmental impacts of war and international cooperation. On March 30, 2026, EPL representatives joined the first seminar of the “Nature and Wars” series, titled «Understanding the Impact of War on People–Nature Relationships», held at the…