The purpose of the brief is to analyze the current state of water management and planning of implementation of projects that have an impact on the environment that result from the failure to conduct environmental assessments in full, which complicates the decision-making process and creates conflict situations. Any activity planned in Ukraine must guarantee environmental…
About 13 % of the Ukrainian forests are constantly being used by public enterprises. Compared to state forests, the efficiency of forest use and protection of large municipal forests is lower, which is caused by a chain of legal, administrative, and economic problems. Most municipal enterprises manage forests inefficiently, numerously violating the law. As a…
The sphere of environmental protection needs both horizontal (change of the old corrupt and inefficient system of ecological control to transparent, effective and operative; reform of legal liability for environmental violations in terms of the extension of administrative and economic sanctions and measures of a criminal nature to legal entities, revision of the composition of violations…
In Ukraine, there is a large number of unaccounted forests on agricultural and undistributed lands. There is no exact data on the area of unaccounted forests, but some estimations indicate the scale of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Due to the intensification of agricultural production, unaccounted forests are being cut down on a massive scale,…
The White paper is aimed to help in reformation of the management of forest industry. The publication outlines the main problems in forest industry in Ukraine, legislative gaps in this area and the key solutions for bridging the gaps and raising the quality of Ukrainian forests that will create necessary conditions for preserving biodiversity and…
This analytic paper (Green paper) is aimed to help in reformation of the management of forest industry. The publication outlines the main problems in forest industry in Ukraine, legislative gaps in this area that limit the development of the branch of economy and preservation of forest ecosystems with necessary conditions for biodiversity and ecological balance…
The system of payment for household waste in Ukraine was formed even when some of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and most of the experts, and I, as they say, “went to the table on foot”. Та проблема в тому, що в період формування цієї системи сам склад відходів відрізнявся від сьогоднішнього…
The current Ukrainian state policy in the area of waste management is not sufficiently clear. The old non-transparent and corrupt post-Soviet system does not comply with modern European trends and needs to be fully updated. Moreover, the system is not able to function due to lack of control on behalf of the state that should…
About 600 thousand tons of hazardous waste is generated in Ukraine annually. These include worked out fluorescent lamps, motor oils, batteries, unfit and expired pesticides, pesticide packaging, medical waste and others. In European countries, this waste is safely generated, recycled, neutralized and disposed of, but in Ukraine it happens in a different way. Most of…
Year by year the facts of excess pollutant content in water resources, soils and air are registered in Ukraine with increasing frequency, and reports on massive fish kills in rivers, people poisoning due to drinking water contamination or illegal pesticide or toxic chemicals spraying, on illegal dump sites found, air pollution above standard and smog,…
All the resources necessary for our life are taken from the environment. This is the air we breathe, water which makes up 60% of our body and which makes our life possible, soil, which is used to grow agricultural products, and natural landscapes, which are a perfect place for rest and relaxation. According to WHO,…
CHALLENGES IN 2014 Absence of effective management system, absence of transparency, and qualitative legal system are the main problems in the forest management sector, which are the reasons of social dissatisfaction with the actions of forest officers. The biggest challenges were: Merging of economic and supervisory functions in the system of the State Agency of…
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