After the war, the issue of providing the country with clean air will be a priority for Ukraine, along with the purification of water and land, in particular the control and limitation of emissions from transport and industry.
Correct urban planning and the use of clean technologies and alternative energy sources are also necessary for the reconstruction of the country, it is reported Deputy of the Kyiv City Council of the 8th convocation Kostyantyn Yalovy on Facebook.
He noted that even before the full-scale invasion, the need to reduce emissions from transport and industry was repeatedly discussed. Currently, wartime problems have also been added to them.
According to the Ministry of Environment, since February 24, the russian federation has carried out about 30 missile strikes on Ukrainian oil depots. In addition, combat operations of varying intensity were conducted on almost 3 million hectares of forests, which led to a 25-fold increase in the area of forest fires (compared to the same period in 2021).
Thus, if one hectare of forest is burned, the damage from emissions of pollutants into the air can amount to more than 1.3 million hryvnias.
"For six months, air pollution in our country is estimated at almost 823 billion hryvnias. And considering that nature has no borders, air pollution in Ukraine has negative consequences for all neighboring countries as well," Yalovy noted.
He also emphasized that according to environmentalists, the number of premature deaths caused by air pollution may increase by 50% by 2050. And every lost year of greening will only worsen this forecast.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the doctor of geographical sciences Svitlana Boychenko stated that the war in Ukraine leads to meteorological, weather and climate changes, and other countries will also suffer from pollution, in particular Russia and Belarus.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, a preliminary assessment of the impact of the war in Ukraine on the environmental situation showed that war is literally toxic, and future generations will live with a toxic legacy.
