Events and Announcements

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.

21 September 2015 The survey was conducted by Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and sociological service of the Razumkov Center from 22 till 27 July 2015. 2011 respondents aged 18 and older were interviewed in all regions of Ukraine except for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Theoretical…

International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” welcomes the decision of the parliament about cancellation of the Law of Ukraine “On placing, planning and construction of energy blocks #3 and 4 of Khmelnytsk nuclear power plant” of 06.09.2012.

14 September 2015 EPL continues its studies of the state of environment in the Crimea after annexation and has revealed a number of gaps. There are new threats to the most valuable objects of protected areas.