Roundtable “Environmental Security and Consequences of War: Challenges, Threats and Ways to Overcome Them”
On April 30, 2025, the National News Agency “Ukrinform” will host a roundtable discussion on “Environmental Security and Consequences of War: Challenges, Threats and Ways to Overcome Them”. The event is organized by the Institute for Global Politics.
Russia not only kills our people every day, deprives them of their homes, destroys infrastructure. It causes irreparable damage to our natural environment. We are talking about enormous environmental damage: destruction of flora and fauna, chemical, bacteriological and radiation threats, drying up of fertile land, etc. About 30 % of our country’s territory is contaminated with explosive ordnance, and more than 1.2 million hectares of nature reserves need to be demined. Actually, all components of our environment – atmosphere, water, soil, flora and fauna, climate, and terrain – are affected by pollution.
In view of all these challenges and threats facing Ukraine, experts need to discuss problematic issues of environmental regional security and propose ways to address them. Therefore, the agenda will include issues of environmental security in war time, in particular, the consequences of hostilities during the Russian-Ukrainian war for our country, as well as for foreign countries bordering Ukraine.
For this purpose, the Institute for Global Politics has organized a roundtable discussion, and MPs of Ukraine, foreign politicians and diplomats, representatives of central executive authorities of Ukraine, military experts, political scientists, environmentalists and lawyers are invited to participate in the discussion of the proposed topic.
The roundtable meeting will take place in Hall 2 of the National News Agency «Ukrinform» from 13.00 to 16.00 at 8/16, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi St., Kyiv.
The speeches will be translated into foreign languages, and some of foreign participants will be in touch via ZOOM.
