Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets said that in 2024 the ministry will continue to implement nine major reforms, including climate policy and waste management.
During 2023, the Ministry of Environment failed to fulfill all of its planned tasks, the ministry's press service reports on Facebook.
Among the main reforms to be implemented in 2024, Strelets named:
- climate policy;
- environmental monitoring;
- waste management;
- environmental control;
- prevention of industrial pollution;
- sustainable management of water resources;
- forest policy.
"We need to be prepared for the fact that the coming year will be even more active than the past year," he said.
According to Strilets, it was important to hear frank feedback about reforms, European integration, preservation of living nature, and carrying out a practice unique to the whole world – calculating the damage to the environment as a result of the war.
"This year we managed to do not everything planned, but still. Despite the war, we are driving reforms in water policy, forestry, and waste management. "We have completed the reform of subsoil use, improved the OVD procedure, and launched 17 digital services," he emphasized.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that experts rated the work of the Minister of Environment Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets in 2023 as 4 on a ten-point scale, in particular due to the lack of transparency and accountability of the ministry's work.
Previously, EcoPolitic analyzed how Ukraine's environmental policy has changed over the past year.
