AFTER-THE-WAR RECOVERY OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF UKRAINE: THE VISION AND PROVISION

Abstract

The war in Ukraine has caused significant losses and damage to the environment; the cost of its post-war restoration is already estimated by experts at more than USD 1 trillion. The paper presents key approaches to restoring Ukraine’s environment in the post-war time. Necessary measures to recover forests, rivers, lands, and biodiversity are presented. Special attention is paid to the necessity of adaptation of environmental legislation to European standards, environmental modernization, and the implementation of innovations, the ways to improve the national system of administration financing the environmental policy in Ukraine as well as the importance to significantly restructure and improve the national system of environmental management.