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501.Violation of the legislation on the right to information and public participation in climate change issues by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Ukraine (2017-01-27)
... Case: Violation of the legislation on the right to information and public participation in climate change issues by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Ukraine. Fact of the matter: protection of the right to information, and right on public participation in decision making process in environmental matters. Parties: plaintiff: NGO “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) defendant: Ministry of... ...
502.Climate change litigation – non-fulfilment by Ukraine of its climate change obligations (2017-01-27)
... Case: Climate change litigation- failure of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine to fulfil its climate change obligations. Region: Ukraine Fact of the matter: to declare unlawful inaction and to oblige the Ministry of Environmental Protection to take actions on fulfilment of undertaken obligations pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... ...
503.Let’s save Carpathians from construction of mini hydro the power plants (2017-01-27)
... Press-announcement (Press-conference and action in Lviv) The press-conference devoted to the problem of massive construction of mini hydro power plants in the Carpathian region will be held in Lviv on March 14, 2012 at 12.15 in the premises of Press-club (Taras Shevchenko Ave. 11, Lviv). What awaits the Carpathian nature in case the planned network... ...
504.LET’S SAVE THE CARPATHIANS FROM CONSTRUCTION OF MINI HYDRO POWER PLANTS! (2017-01-27)
... There is information from official sources about plans of construction of 550 mini hydro power plants in the Carpathians. For example, it has been planned to construct 330 mini hydro power plants in Zakarpattia region for implementation of the Program of complex usage of water resources of Zakarpattia region, in Ivano-Frankivsk – according to different... ...
505.Lviv city council ignores court hearings on Hrybovychi landfill (2017-01-25)
... EPL appealed to the Halytskyi District Court of Lviv with a suit challenging actions of Lviv city council related to the operation of Hrybovychi landfill. However, representatives of Lviv City Council failed to attend two consecutive court hearings, in this way procrastinating consideration of the case. Back in October 2016, EPL filed a lawsuit with... ...
506.And once again about waste … (2017-01-25)
... We got to know that on January 19, 2017, Lviv City Council (LCC) held an extraordinary scandalous session and adopted the resolution “On the critical situation in the administrative territory of Lviv City Council due to the inability to remove solid waste”. Even despite the truly critical situation with the removal of solid domestic waste... ...
507.The last chance for Ukraine to save face in the context of the Aarhus Convention (2017-01-25)
... On January 23, 2017, Christian Friis Bach – Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe addressed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mr. Klimkin with a letter on the findings of the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention on Ukraine’s implementation of decisions V/9m of the Meeting of the Parties regarding... ...
508.Why shouldn’t Prince Charles speak out on climate change? The science is clear Tony Juniper (2017-01-24)
... Ladybird books will this week publish a new title on climate change. Co-authored by the Prince of Wales, the polar scientist Emily Shuckburgh and myself, the book is intended as a plain English guide to the subject for an adult readership. Short, peer-reviewed text sits alongside beautiful new paintings by Ruth Palmer to illustrate the... ...
509.We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years John Vidal (2017-01-24)
... If you want to see the world’s climate changing, fly over a tropical country. Thirty years ago, a wide belt of rainforest circled the earth, covering much of Latin America, south-east Asia and Africa. Today, it is being rapidly replaced by great swathes of palm oil trees and rubber plantations, land cleared for cattle grazing,... ...
510.60mph speed limit for M1 under consideration to combat air pollution (2017-01-24)
... Highways England plans to introduce Britain’s first pollution-linked speed limits to help reduce smog over Sheffield The M1 plan coincides with proposals for a £106m ‘smart motorway’ due to launch in March. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA A proposal to impose Britain’s first pollution-linked speed limits in order to help ease smog over Sheffield is being considered... ...
