Events and Announcements

9 December 2015 For 15 months, experts of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” have been releasing information on environmental consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine. However, neither Ukraine nor other countries paid sufficient attention to serious human rights violations in eastern Ukraine caused by environmental factors.

On 7-8 December 2015, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” jointly with the National School of Judges of Ukraine held training for judges of administrative courts.

As the Paris Climate Change Conference enters its second and final week, there are grounds for hope and grounds for despair.

On 26.11.2015, the Parliament of Ukraine considered in the first reading the draft law on environmental impact assessment that the Parliament did not adopt and returned for additional rework because of the opposition on behalf of business lobby.

On 10-11 November, Kyiv hosted an International practical conference “Road map for Ukraine in the sphere of waste management and electronic governance” organized by the International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) with support from the Embassy of Sweden.

On 10-11 November 2015, Swedish Embassy in Ukraine and International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) will hold international practical conference “Road map for Ukraine in the sphere of waste management and electronic governance”.

In 2012-2013, International charitable organization “Environment–People–Law” (EPL) was one of the first organizations that studied the issue of extraction of unconventional hydrocarbons and results of these studies can beviewed here.

On October 6-8,2015, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)hosted Eye on Earth summit2015. More than650participantsrepresenting international organizations andgovernments,as well asscientists, politiciansand the publicfrom variouscountries discussedthe use of moderninformation technologies forprotecting the environment andachieving the relevant objectivesof sustainable developmentdefinedat the end ofSeptember 2015 by world leadersat the UN summit http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/.

On October 7th, 2015, public hearing for the project “Construction of new nuclear power plant units Paks II” was held in the Aarhus Center of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine. Hungarian delegation visited Ukraine within the procedure of holding public hearings in adjacent states and preliminarily shared EIA results for studying,…

On 28-30 September 2015, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) jointly with the National School of Judges of Ukraine at financial support of USAID Fair Justice Project held a training for judges – trainers of the course “Human rights and environmental protection” on the basis of methodological materials developed by EPL.