Over 5,000 participants from 23 regions of Ukraine took part in the first-ever Ukrainian Climate Week 2025 (UCW) — a nationwide initiative that brought together communities, educational institutions, civil society organizations, nature conservation bodies, and artists around a shared goal: protecting nature and taking action for the climate. UCW events took place in more than…
From October 5 to 11, the Ukrainian Climate Week (UCW) will take place across Ukraine for the second time — a nationwide marathon of events on climate change, community adaptation, energy security, and green recovery. Anyone can become part of it: all you need to do is organise a climate-related event and add it to…
Schoolchildren today hear quite often about climate change, environmental pollution, and the need to sort waste. But between knowing about environmental problems and understanding what can actually be done in one’s own school, yard, or city, there remains a significant gap. This gap is exactly what the “Green School” project set out to narrow — implemented by…
Over three months, the NGO KYIV FOR PEOPLE, in collaboration with the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, developed an interactive educational course on the topic: “The Climate is Changing — Learning to Adapt.” With the support of a grant from Greenpeace Ukraine, we were able to involve talented designers…
GreenRoots Hub: A Place Where Local Initiatives Take Root The German organisation Austausch e.V. has opened the GreenRoots Hub in Dnipro so that communities in frontline regions can restore their environment themselves. Here is how it works and what the first ten teams have already accomplished. The charitable organisation “GREENROOTSHUB – LOCAL INITIATIVES DEVELOPMENT” was…
Eco-activism rarely begins with grand plans. More often, it starts with a personal sense of injustice, attentiveness to simple things, and an inner need to act. This is the story of Nataliia Haietska — head of the NGO “Mariupol Zero Waste,” coordinator of the “Climate and Environment” direction at the BO “Boyarka Community Foundation,” and…
