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As you may know, the Philippines is among the countries with the richest biodiversity in the world having unique coastal, marine and island biotopes within the Coral Triangle1. Unfortunately, this state is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, with at least 700 species at risk of extinction. Local unique biodiversity is significantly threatened with extinction…
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From June 25 to 29, 2023, Cebu (the Republic of the Philippines) became the center of generation of ideas for protection of the planet by environmental lawyers from 70 countries. The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) gathered environmental defenders on the picturesque island. EPL representatives as members of the Alliance took part in this international…
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The summer school “Mechanisms of nature protection in conditions of war” was held on July 3-6, 2023 in the village of Korotyshche, Drohobytsky district, Lviv region. The summer school began with an expedition to places of violation of environmental legislation. The expedition was aimed to illustrate indirect impact of military actions on natural complexes on…
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The scale of the environmental disaster caused by the war in Ukraine urges the international community to intensify their efforts to help Ukraine in the process of assessing the environmental consequences of the war and planning effective ways to overcome them. This is precisely what the activities of the International High-level Working Group on the…
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Previously, on EPL’s information resources, we already informed about the initiative to create the Register of damage caused by the Russian Federation against Ukraine (hereinafter – the Register). The creation and adjustment of the work of such a Register is a fundamental element of functioning of the compensation mechanism for Ukraine. It is important that…
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International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) and the Bureau of Environmental Investigations (BEI) announce the launch of the platform “Models of Green Recovery: Kakhovka HPP” to elaborate solutions for the restoration of the lower Dnipro area after the Kakhovka Hydro Power Plant (HPP) disaster. Destruction of the Kakhovka HPP and Kakhovka Water Reservoir caused unprecedented environmental,…
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Just before the big Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023, which will take place in London on June 21-22, we continue emphasizing that such recovery must be “green” and explaining what this means in the context of reforms in the area of environmental protection. Ukrainian environmental community resolutely insists that in the long term perspective, the process…
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Representatives of environmental civil society movement in Ukraine appeal to our colleagues in the area of environmental protection, international experts, institutions that aim to protect the environment, secretariats of international environmental conventions, authorized bodies, and individuals of the United Nations within their mandates and capabilities and request to respond to the latest act of ecocide…
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According to the European Commission’s revised Circular Economy Monitoring Framework1, published on 15 May 2023, the EU must continue its efforts to reduce consumption and reduce waste generation with the aim of achieving a more circular economy. The rate of increase in resource extraction is the main cause of the triple planetary crisis: climate change,…
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The leaders of the democratic world, G7, released a joint statement on Ukraine on May 19, 20231. At the meeting in Hiroshima (Japan), the G7 leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the joint opposition to russia’s illegal, unjustifiable and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. They condemned russia’s manifest violation of the Charter of the United…
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