Towards Security, Recovery, and the EU Green Agenda: Shaping Environmental Legal Doctrine of Ukraine
Panel discussion
“Towards Security, Recovery, and the EU Green Agenda:
Shaping Environmental Legal Doctrine of Ukraine”
Date: September 28, 2023
10:00 – 17:00 (Kyiv time)
Hybrid format
… man has consciously and unconsciously inflicted irreparable damage to the environment in times of war and peace.
Richard A. Falk, 1973
Partners of the event: European Commission, Erasmus+ “Unlocking the transformative potential of Ukrainian universities to build climate-neutral and sustainable cities – UniCities”, Project website: http://unicities.org.ua
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In the aftermath of Ukraine’s post-war recovery, the formation of environmental and legal doctrine serves as the bedrock for achieving sustainable development, reinstating ecological equilibrium, and ensuring environmental safety.
During the panel discussion, we will explore the following pressing topics:
- Ensuring Environmental Safety and Security in the Face of Modern Challenges and Threats
- Environmental Crimes and Ecocide
- Aiming Net Zero for Environmental Protection, Safety and Security
- Energy Justice and Green Transition
- Pathways to Post-War Green Reconstruction and Recovery of Ukraine
- Role of Green Energy in Ensuring Ukraine’s Energy Security
- Addressing Environmental and Climate Damages Arising from Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Compensation and Restoration Efforts
- Ukraine’s Environmental Transformation on the Path to the EU
The event will be carried out in a hybrid format:
For online participation, please follow the link (Zoom) :
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86929024126?pwd=4GAy7l8uz2CNbcLaJ8YbLOfAzMZRmQ.0z9ujdafbZ_jk8Lp
Access code: 971594
Webinar ID: 869 2902 4126
SPEAKERS

Dr Vlad Mykhnenko is an economic geographer, working on a range of issues relating to urban and regional economic development, and geographical political economy. Much of Vlad’s research focusses on the interrelationship between spatial imbalances in production and income, urban growth and decline, state fiscal power inequalities, territorial cohesion, and societal conflict. Empirically, he works […]

Prof. Dr. jur. Michael Rodi (M.A.) is the founder of IKEM and its executive and scientific director. He is also the head of the IKEM research academy. He is also the head of the IKEM research academy. He is an expert on climate law. His other fields of expertise include the fields of sustainable energy […]

Mohammad Hazrati is a post-doctoral researcher at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, E2S UPPA, CNRS, TREE laboratory, Chaire Energy Justice & the Social Contract (Energy Justice & the Social Contract Centre) in Pau, France. He holds a PhD in Energy Law from Queen Mary University of London (UK) and an MSc in […]

Wojciech Lewandowski, Ph. D. Expert in EU public policies, especially industrial, climate and economic policies. He pursues his scientific activity at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he defended his doctorate in European Union law in 2022. Since March 2023, an Associate in the Climate Strategy Delivery department at […]

Mirte Boot is a research associate at Oxford Net Zero, the University of Oxford, and co-founder and director of the NGO intiative Carbon Balance. Here she works on the standards and policy frameworks needed to achieve net zero, including oil and gas accountability frameworks such as the Carbon Takeback Obligation (CTBO). Mirte’s past experience includes […]

Daniil Ukhorskiy is an investigative reporter at the Kyiv Independent. He is an international lawyer with experience documenting human rights abuses around the world. Previously, he worked for the Clooney Foundation for Justice investigating war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from the University of Oxford.

Vice-President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, Advisor to the President of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society on International Humanitarian Law, Leading Researcher at the State Research Institution “Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”.

Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, PhD in Law, Associate Professor.

PhD in Law, Head of the Department of Representation of State Interests on Land Relations Department of the Representation of State Interests in the Court of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Master of Laws of Yaroslav the Wise National University of Law, Master of International Economics of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Master of […]

Head of the Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, graduate of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy of Ukraine at the Faculty of Business Law (1992-1997).

Prof. Vasyl Kostytsky is the President of the International Association of Medical Law, PhD (Doctor of Legal Sciences (Habilitated), full member of the National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine (academician), Full Professor of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Honorable Lawyer of Ukraine. He is one of the prominent public figures of […]

Member of the High Council of Justice, Judge of the Supreme Court, PhD in Law, Associate Professor. Research interests: civil law, public participation in the protection of environmental rights, judiciary.

Dr. Svitlana Romanko is a “Razom We Stand” Founder and Director. She is a prominent Ukrainian campaigner, movement strategist and climate activist, who launched and coordinates the Stand With Ukraine campaign to ban all fossil fuels from russia, to end the war in Ukraine and boost a revolutionary clean energy transition everywhere in the world. […]

Yulia Ovchynnykova is a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament; Head of the Subcommittee on Forest Resources, Biodiversity, Natural Landscapes, Nature Reserve Fund Objects and Adaptation of Ukrainian Legislation to the Provisions of the European Union Law of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management. Member of the delegation of the Ukrainian part […]

Head of the Department of Labour, Environmental and Agrarian Law at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, PhD in Law, Associate Professor.

Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal and Administrative Law of the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine, PhD in Law, Associate Professor.

Acting Leading Researcher of the Department of Modernisation of Commercial Law and Legislation of the State Institution “Mamutov Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor.

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law at Zaporizhzhia National University.

Professor, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Head of the Department of Land and Agrarian Law of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. He is active as expert on legal issues of international technical assistance projects of […]

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Labor, Land and Commercial Law of the Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytsky University of Management and Law.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Agricultural and Land Law Problems of the Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, State Counselor of Justice of the Third Class, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine.

Professor, Doctor of Law, Head of the Department of Civil and Business Law at the National University of Bioresources and Nature Management. Date and place of birth 23. 05. 1979, Kiev. Education Graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev in 2001. Master of Law. Laureate of the Yaroslav Mudryi Prize of the National […]

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Labor, Environmental and Agrarian Law at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

Doctor of Law, Professor, First Vice-Rector of Zaporizhzhia National University.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Agrarian, Land and Environmental Law at the National University “Odesa Law Academy”. She combines active research with extensive practical experience. She is a scientific adviser of the project “Alternative Energy in Ukraine: Ways of Systemic Legislative Stimulation”, which is being implemented with the support of the […]

Doctor of Law, Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Agrarian, Land and Environmental Law at the National University “Odesa Law Academy”. She is the responsible executor of the project “Alternative Energy in Ukraine: Ways of Systemic Legislative Stimulation”, which is being implemented with the support of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Academician V. Z. Yanchuk Chair of Agrarian, Land and Environmental Law of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Judge of the Commercial Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court.

D. in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Law at the Educational and Research Institute of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Head of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office (as a department) of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, graduated from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy of Ukraine (2009).

Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, member of the Central Election Commission, attorney, certified expert of the National Bar Association of Ukraine, expert lecturer at the UNDP office in Ukraine, lecturer at NDI and IRI, freelance advisor to the Verkhovna Rada Committee.

Member of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation (Servant of the People), Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management, Member of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, Member of the inter-factional association “For the Environment, Against Ecocide”, Member of the inter-factional association “Humane Country”, Chief Coordinator of the Operational […]

Deputy Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Military Administration, graduate of Yaroslav the Wise National Law University, PhD in Biology, attorney-at-law.
MODERATORS

Head of the Department of Environmental Law at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, PhD in Law, Associate Professor. Research interests: environmental law and policy, international environmental law, European Union environmental law, law and policy in the field of natural resources use. He researches the implementation of the ecosystem approach in environmental policy, legislation and law […]

Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Environmental Law at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Has more than 300 scientific and methodological publications, including 200 scientific and 100 educational and methodological publications, as well as scientific papers published in domestic and international peer-reviewed professional journals, and publications in periodicals included in the Scopus […]

Phd, Associate Professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Ukraine), a research fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy, and a visiting academic at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Drawing on a background in environmental, energy and climate law, her current research takes a look at how to ensure net zero transition amid […]
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Rector of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Anatoly Hetman