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Iryna Stavchuk

Iryna Stavchuk, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for European Integration.
Iryna Stavchuk has been involved in climate policy work in Ukraine for more than 15 years. From 2006 to 2017 she worked at the National Ecological Center of Ukraine and from 2008 to 2019, she worked as the Coordinator of the Climate Action Network in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. She is the founder and prior chairman of the NGO “Kyiv Cyclists Association.”From 2017 to 2019 she was an Executive Director of the NGO Center for Environmental Initiatives "Ecoaction." Since 2019, Iryna Stavchuk has been working in the government, continuing to communicate important objectives and the need for an ambitious climate policy in Ukraine.

Articles

Iryna Stavchuk, Oleh Savytskyi: How Europe and Ukraine can phase-out Russian oil and gas

Today, Russia's egregious armed aggression against Ukraine as an X-ray highlights a chronic disease of a united Europe that has long required radical "surgery". The acute energy crisis that EU is facing now comes as the culmination of decades of flawed energy policy and the result of a pernicious dependence on fossil fuel imports from Russia and other anti-democratic regimes. Today, it is obviously clear how politically, socially and economically vulnerable Europe is because of its dependence on