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1.URC 2024 has started (2024-06-11)
... Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2024) “United for defense. United for recovery. Stronger together” started on 11 June in Berlin. The event brought together leaders of governments, international organizations, representatives of civil society and business. This year the conference in Berlin is organized by Germany and Ukraine. The conference will take place on June 11 and... ...
2.The position of representatives of environmental civil society movement regarding reconstruction of Ukraine within the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2024) (2024-06-06)
... Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2024) will bring together leaders of a number of national governments, international organizations, business and civil society. Germany and Ukraine will jointly host the Conference on June 11 and 12, 2024 in Berlin. URC2024 is a continuation of the cycle of annual high-level events dedicated to the rapid recovery and long-term reconstruction... ...
3.Introduction to the work of Avfall Sverige – a glance at Swedish Waste Management (2024-05-20)
... EPL had productive meeting with Avfall Sverige advisor Jon Nilsson Djerf, M.Sc. in their office in Stockholm, while the main office of association is in Malme and has near 25 people of staff. Avfall Sverige – is the trade association for the waste management and recycling sector in Sweden. It was founded in 1947... ...
4.Swedish Environmental Protection Agency – full support to Ukrainian environmental reforms and eagerness to share Swedish experience in nature protection (2024-05-18)
... EPL representatives met with staff of Swedish EPA in their beautiful and comfortable modern office in Stockholm, which confirms EPA’s commitments for climate neutrality and sustainability and innovations. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency conducts and coordinates Sweden’s environmental work. Together with many others, they work to preserve biodiversity, reduce climate impact and contribute to... ...
5.Meeting Stockholm Environment Institute (2024-05-16)
... In our advocacy tour to Stockhom, Sweden, EPL representatives met with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), one of the biggest environmental think tank in the world. SEI has its headquarters in Stockholm (Sweden) and centres in Bangkok (Thailand), Boston, Davis, and Seattle (US), Oxford and York (UK), Tallinn (Estonia), Nairobi (Kenya) and Bogota (Colombia). The SEI... ...
6.EEB 50th Anniversary Conference (2024-05-15)
... On 13 May 2024, EEB celebrated its 50th Anniversary and conducted the Annual Conference devoted to overview of EEB’s long way and plans for the future. Since next European Parliamentary elections will be conducted in early June 2024, it is vitally important to have a strong vision for environmental policy and legislation priorities to guide... ...
7.The ECHR has ruled in three cases on climate change (2024-04-13)
... On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as the ECHR) ruled in three cases directly related to climate change. This day will definitely go down in the history of both the climate movement and the human rights movement. In view of the importance and a kind of precedent nature... ...
8.New policy for sustainable development of the forest sector: implementation progress in 2022-2023 (2024-04-06)
... In the recent years, Ukrainian forest policy has a number of distinctive trends, which reflect overall Ukrainian environmental and economic policy and priorities as well as vision of the sector development by managing officials of the State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine (hereinafter – SAFR). There trends are based on 3 main directions with... ...
9.Today, March 24, the EPL celebrates the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the organization! (2024-03-24)
... Our organization was founded on March 24, 1994 as “Ekopravo – Lviv” Charitable Foundation. Later, we transformed into International Charitable Organization “Environment-People-Law” and became EPL. Our goal is to protect the environment and the rights of citizens to a safe environment in Ukraine using law tools. At the beginning of our activity, we had three... ...
10.The resolution on environmental assistance and recovery in areas affected by armed conflict adopted by UNEP (2024-02-28)
... The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) took place from 26 February to 1 March 2024 at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. On 24 February 2024, on the 2nd anniversary of the launch of the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, the preliminary consultations with civil society... ...
