The Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets, said that Ukraine will initiate the creation of a Global Platform for the development of international methods for assessing environmental damage from military actions.
This happened on Monday, October 3, at a meeting of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament, Strelets reports on Facebook.
He told the MEPs about new methods for calculating damage to the environment as a result of the war, which Ukraine has developed. According to these methods, the preliminary assessment of the damage caused by the Russian Federation to the environment of Ukraine has already exceeded €36 billion.
The meeting discussed further cooperation between Ukraine and the EU regarding post-war environmental restoration.
"Currently, the support of the EU in matters of quality environmental monitoring is important for Ukraine. We urgently need modern equipment for monitoring the quality of water in the de-occupied territories, – said Strilets. – We also need support in the preparation of Ukrainian nature protection projects that will be submitted under the LIFE program to receive appropriate funding from the EU budget."
He also spoke about plans to create a state agency to manage national parks. It will become a platform for dialogue with EU countries on issues of restoration of nature conservation areas.
Strilets also thanked the countries that have already agreed to sign agreements with Ukraine on the trading of quotas for greenhouse gas emissions. After all, these free quotas will make it possible to attract additional funds as quickly as possible, in particular for the reconstruction of the country.
He also emphasized that the principles of the European Green agreement should be carried through all future documents regarding the restoration of Ukraine after the end of hostilities.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the deputy minister of environmental Protection and natural resources Yevgeny Fedorenko stated that the estimated amount of damage caused by russian troops to the nature of Ukraine is already has reached $35 billion and is growing every day.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for European Integration Svitlana Grynchuk said that russia's war against Ukraine accelerates climate change and causes an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
