Ievgeniia Kopytsia

Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University · The Department of Environmental Law

"Advances in Environmental Law" is a ground-breaking exploration of the ever-evolving field of environmental jurisprudence, providing a comprehensive examination of key themes such as Environmental Law, Climate Law, European Law, Globalization, Indigenous Peoples, Right to Clean Environment, Environmental Litigation, Clean Energy, Sustainable Devel...

Emerging from the ashes of war, Ukraine will stand at a critical economic crossroads, facing the challenge of sustainable and resilient economic recovery. Decisions taken will determine how infrastructure will be reshaped, which industries and sectors will develop on top of it, and what resulting greenhouse gas emissions profile the country will ha...

The purpose of the article is to study the process of harmonization of the environmental legislation of Ukraine with EU acquis in connection with the acquisition of the EU candidate membership status. An analysis of the legal framework for the formation of EU environmental policy has been carried out. The main principles of the EU in the field of e...

Introduction. Environmental protection, rational use of natural resources and environmental security are among the guidelines for sustainable development of any state. However, it is important to emphasize that effective realization of such activities is possible only in peaceful time. At present, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine puts und...

The paper is devoted to the study of the interrelationship between climate change and human rights, identifying the emergency of the climate change problem and its direct impact on fundamental human rights. The provisions of key international legal acts in the sphere of climate change adaptation and mitigation are analyzed, focusing on human rights...

The present paper is devoted to the problems of legal regulation of protecting biological diversity from the harmful effects of invasive alien species (hereinafter, IAS) with regards to climate change. Taking into consideration the fact that one of the main principles of environmental protection is the preservation of spatial and species diversity,...

The protection of the environmental rights of citizens is an important issue for the domestic and foreign state policy of Ukraine. Although environmental rights are formally recognised and enshrined in law, they fail to be implemented in practice. This indicates the imbalance and lack of effective political and legal mechanisms for an appropriate s...

When the climate change is one of the most urgent, complex and challenging global problems of the present, threatening global economy and international security, it has to be primarily regulated domestically, at the level of a State. The present article aims to examine the current state of legal regulation of the climate change issues in Ukraine. A...

The article presents theoretical generalization and provides the substantiated solution of scientific and practical problem regarding the development of theoretical and methodological framework for the assurance of energy security of a country. The authors carried out a detailed analysis and specified the leading trends in the world energy market a...

The article carries out the analysis of scientific researches and current legislation in the sphere of prevention and combating climate change. It is determined that the basis for the development of effective national legislation in this area should be formed by the state climate policy. It is proved that the institute of normalization occupies a l...

The paper studies legal normative grounds for normalization in the field of ambient air protection and analyses its place in the system of legal regulation means in the field under question. Analysis of legislation in force revealed certain drawbacks in conceptual instruments of normalization institute, and ways of theirs elimination are proposed o...