European Pravda continues to cover the European Commission’s report on Ukraine and other EU candidate countries. This includes the Eurointegration Ranking comparing Ukraine with other countries aspiring for EU membership and two analyses on Ukraine’s position – one by European Pravda and another by EasyBusiness, plus a review of the justice chapter (read more in the article What the EU saw and didn’t see in its report on justice)
Read more about the report’s assessment of environment and climate change in the column by Natalia Andrusevych, Chair of the Governing Board and resource and analysis center Society and Environment – Another D for environment: How the EU rated Ukraine on the ‘environmental’ chapter and what to do about it.
According to Andrusevych, this year’s report within the enlargement package gives Ukraine two “D” in environment and climate – one for current status and one for progress over the past year.
While Ukraine has made some notable strides, certain recommendations from the previous year remain unfulfiled.
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Andrusevych explains that the European Commission has outlined three priorities for Ukraine in 2025 regarding environmental and climate policies, while warning that such slow progress in adopting EU laws could take decades.
The three main objectives for Ukraine next year include:
– Addressing issues related to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA);
– Updating relevant documents within the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and ratifying the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol;
– Restoring the monitoring, reporting and verification system for industrial greenhouse gas emissions and adopting a roadmap for implementing an emissions trading system.
“Achieving each of these three objectives requires close cooperation among key ministries and other stakeholders,” Andrusevych reminds readers.
She also notes that despite the war, the European Commission expects Kyiv to take steps not only on environmental assessments but also in providing access to environmental information, monitoring environmental status, climate regulation and reconstruction processes.
In addition to the three primary recommendations, the European Commission report includes assessments and several priorities across all areas of environmental and climate policy.
“For example, the EU has suggested the Ukrainian government will eventually need to close or modernise 6,000 (!) landfills.
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