Ukraine will initiate the creation of an international methodology for assessing environmental damage from military operations
Read for: 2 min. October 5, 2022, 3:17
Ukraine will initiate the creation of a Global Platform for the development of international methods for assessing environmental damage from military actions.
The National Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ruslan Strelets at the meeting of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament.
The minister informed the MEPs that Ukraine has developed new methods for calculating damage to the environment as a result of the war. According to these methods, the preliminary assessment of the damage that the Russians have caused to the environment of Ukraine has already exceeded 36 billion euros.
Further cooperation between Ukraine and the EU regarding post-war environmental restoration was also discussed. Currently, EU support is important for Ukraine:
- in matters of quality environmental monitoring. We urgently need modern equipment for monitoring the quality of water in the de-occupied territories.
- in the preparation of Ukrainian nature protection projects, which are submitted under the LIFE program to receive appropriate funding from the EU budget.
“We plan to create a state agency for the management of national parks. It will become a platform for dialogue with EU countries on the issue of restoration of nature conservation areas,” said Ruslan Strilets.
The minister thanked the countries that have already agreed to sign agreements with Ukraine on the trading of quotas for the emission of greenhouse gases.
“Ukraine has free quotas on Wikimedia and we are open to international dialogue. I am sure that we will develop mechanisms that allow us to attract additional investment costs for the modernization and reconstruction of our country as quickly as possible. Our belief is that the principles of the Green Agreement should be passed through all future documents regarding the restoration of Ukraine after the end of the European hostilities,” said Ruslan Strilets.
Source: Government portal