Recovery Plan of Ukraine "Environmental Safety"
Publisher: Government of Ukraine
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Economic Recovery, Land, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Ukraine
In 2020, greenhouse gas emissions decreased to 33.7% from 1990 levels. Still, the energy intensity of Ukraine's GDP in 2018 was three times higher than in Poland. In 2021, an updated nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement was approved, setting the goal of achieving carbon neutrality no later than 2060. The environmental safety of Ukraine before the full-scale war was alarming while the impact of Russian military aggression is raising the risk of environmental disaster. In 2020, Ukraine ranked 4th in the world in terms of the level of economic losses from air pollution, the main polluters of which are mining and processing industry, energy and agricultural sector enterprises, their emissions of pollutants amounted to more than 90% of the total volume. The situation with waste was also critical - due to the dominance of resource-intensive multi-waste technologies in the national economy, about 500 million tons of waste are generated per year, of which only up to 25% was disposed. The resource intensity of Ukraine's economy is also the cause of the depletion and deterioration of natural resources, and especially agricultural land as the basic basis of the country's food security.