Crimes against the environment during the war

Organizers: Center for Environmental Initiatives NGO "Ecodiya"; Commission on Journalistic Ethics.

Speakers: Roman Shakhmatenko - Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine; Yevhenia Zasyadko - Head of the Climate Department of the NGO "Ecodiya", Oleksiy Vasyliuk - Head of the NGO "Ukrainian Environmental Group"; Iryna Chernysh is the head of the SafeDnipro NGO.

Moderator: Oleksiy Pogorelov - President of the Ukrainian Association of Media Business, member of the Commission on Journalistic Ethics.

Questions for discussion:

• Why is it also important to record war crimes against the environment during the war?
• The first results of war crimes against the environment in Ukraine in the first month of the war;
• Analysis of the situation in the nature reserve fund and what awaits nature after the war; and
• Explain the process of collecting crimes against the environment and SaveEcoBot tools for collecting crimes and viewing data on fires and radiation pollution in real time.

For reference. The event was made possible by the financial support of the British Government in the project "Development of Climate Journalism in Ukraine through the ability of Ukrainian media to cover climate change", implemented by the Commission on Journalistic Ethics in partnership with the Center for Environmental Initiatives "Ekodiya". The views expressed at this event are those of the author (s) and may not reflect the official position of the Government of the United Kingdom.

The discussion is designed for representatives of Ukrainian and foreign media, the working language is Ukrainian, simultaneous translation into English is planned.

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Event format - online (Zoom)

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