AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPACT FOR UKRAINE - Assessing Environmental Damage in Ukraine

Hence the modalities of col- the intensity of the conflict and severity of its environ- lection and analysis warrant consideration. [...] In age from the war, the MEPNR and the State Environmen- many parts of the country elements of the pre-existing tal Inspectorate (SEI) have perhaps the most prominent monitoring architecture have been disrupted or altered, role among the government bodies.11 The MEPNR devel- with access denied, equipment lost and experts inter- oped and operates a dedicated platform EcoZagrosa nally or internation. [...] Due to the much extended scope of the SEI’s work ly, Zoï Environment Network’s Ecodozor public platform in response to the invasion, the agency has experienced seeks to capture the breadth of environmentally harmful human and technical capacity constraints around the incidents and likely areal impact,19 while CEOBS under- volume of data it can collect, and how collection and takes deep risk analys. [...] Data collec- Monitoring Center,17 and the Ukrainian Nature Conserva- tion and analysis are an increasingly prominent part of tion Group.18 the work of the UNDP, including through its Coordination Centre for Environmental Damage Assessment, funded 4 by Sweden.25 FAO, the IAEA and the World Bank are also 5.1 Gaps in data collection for early response among the many actors gathering data of relevance. [...] See for example the KSE Institute’s cooperation with the Of- step-towards-an-international-compensation-mecha- fice of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy, the nism-for-victims-of-russian-aggression Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Ter- ritories, and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine’s Dam- 34.