On Friday, February 16 at 15:00, the Environmental Policy and Advocacy Initiative for Ukraine of the International Renaissance Foundation (EPAIU) will host a discussion with the participation of experts and experts on environmental issues about the opportunities that international platforms such as the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) provide activists with.
You will be able to watch the discussion and ask questions to the speakers online. The broadcast will take place on the page of the International Renaissance Foundation on Facebook and on the page of the Your City media platform.
The expert discussion is intended to highlight the impressions of participants at COP conferences, in particular COP28, and also to analyze why it is important to talk about issues such as:
the impact of the Russian war on climate;
why Ukraine is useful for the whole world, and why Russia poses a threat to the whole world when it destroys the environment of Ukraine;
why it is important to talk about the factor of indigenous peoples using the example of the Crimean temporarily occupied peninsula;
how the issue of ecocide in Ukraine relates to climate change globally;
what are financial climate instruments and etc.
Questions will also be raised regarding the Ukrainian pavilion: how to use it more effectively to demonstrate what we can and want to do for the future – a vision of 10 years or more ahead.
Speakers:
Borys Babin, NGO Crimean Tatar Resource Center, professor, expert with international experience, participated in the preparation of documents for submission to the UN on the occupied Crimea, specialist on ecocide issues.
Ievgen Khlobystov, NGO Crimean Tatar Resource Center, professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at NaUKMA, expert field: ensuring sustainable development, economics of environmental protection, environmental rights of indigenous peoples and climate change.
Olha Polunina, NGO Center for Environmental Initiatives Ekodiya, executive director, expert field: losses from the war in agriculture, Ukraine’s negotiating position on climate change.
Lennard de Klerk, Initiative on GHG Accounting of War, head of the international monitoring group on the impact of war on the climate, coordinator of the research Climate damage caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Andrii Kitura, project manager of Dixie Group – Office of Green Economic Transition of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. Expert on sustainable development and climate change.
The discussion will be moderated by Oksana Dashchakivska, manager of the International Renaissance Foundation.
The discussion will take place within the framework of the Environmental Policy and Advocacy Initiative for Ukraine implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation with the support of Sweden.