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61.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... ...
62.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... ...
63.Application of the European Convention on Human Rights for Protection of Environmental Rights and the Environment (2024-05-16)
... The manual constitutes the second edition of the analytical review of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights in cases relating to the environment. The authors analyse court judgments under specific articles of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the content of which was creatively interpreted by the... ...
64.Mechanisms of international reparations for environmental damage: compensation mechanism for Ukraine (2024-05-16)
... Introduction. In a world where the devastating effects of war on the environment are becoming increasingly evident, there is a need to better understand and more effectively address the issue of compensation for environmental damage. This document is aimed at researching the prospects of getting reparations1 for environmental damage at the international level, through the... ...
65.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... ...
66.The environment is a silent victim of war. How long will this last? (2024-04-16)
... Introduction People destroy the environment when waging wars and carrying out economic activities without taking proper responsibility for it. When there is a need to bring those responsible for environmental destruction to justice, both at the state and international levels, there are more questions than answers. The larger the damage to nature, the more likely... ...
67.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... ...
68.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... ...
69.Mechanisms of international reparations for environmental damage: compensation mechanism for Ukraine (2024-04-02)
... Introduction. In a world where the devastating effects of war on the environment are becoming increasingly evident, there is a need to better understand and more effectively address the issue of compensation for environmental damage. This document is aimed at researching the prospects of getting reparations1 for environmental damage at the international level, through the... ...
70.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... ...
