Dozens of experts from the world’s most effective international environmental networks strategized on this and other critical environmental issues faced by communities around the world at “The State of the Environment: Challenges and Cooperation for Environmental Protection,” June 9-11, 2016, in Zhdenijevo, Ukraine.
The planet is at a tipping point: The United Nations reports that in less than 10 years, more than half of the world’s nations will suffer from fresh water scarcity.
“The scale of the problems is enormous,” says Olena Kravchenko, Executive Director of Environment-People-Law (EPL). “Together we are strong, so we must collaborate across borders.”
EPL is co-hosting the meeting with three leading international networks: Association of Environmental Law of Central/Eastern Europe and Newly Independent States (GUTA), Justice and Environment: European Network of Environmental Law Organizations, and the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).
Legal and scientific experts participated from the U.S., Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Estonia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Spain, Austria, and Chile.
“This is an exciting opportunity for the three networks to start cooperation, support each other and give more force to each other.”, says Heidi Weiskel, ELAW scientist.
“We will tap each other’s experience and collaborate to strengthen the role of civil society to ensure access to clean air, water, and soil. We want to build on the Paris Agreement and hold coal and other polluting industries accountable for damaging the climate”, says Sandor Fulop, President of EMLA NGO, member of Guta and Justice and Environment Networks.
EPL is hosting “The State of the Environment: Challenges and Cooperation for Environmental Protection,” thanks to generous support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
Contact:
Hanna Khomechko
Environment-People-Law
h.khomechko@epl.org.ua
Ivana Franka str. 9, 1a
79005, Lviv, Ukraine
PH: +38-032-225-76-82
