The associate professor of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology took part in the transdisciplinary summer school

From August 25 to 31, 2024, in Hamburg, Germany, within the framework of the project “European Universities' Support to Legal and Civil Society Capacity for the Environmental Restoration of Ukraine - GROMADA”, Associate Professor of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology Inna Khomenko took part in a transdisciplinary summer school with a lecture on “Climate Resilience and Environmental Law: Overcoming the Climate Consequences of War and Environmental Crimes”.

The main goal of the summer school was to explore the role of citizen science and international law in preventing and mitigating the environmental consequences of war by providing communities with tools to address environmental issues.

The summer school culminated in a mock trial, which examined war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against Ukraine that had or may have serious environmental consequences: Kakhovka Reservoir, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and ecocide. The task of the summer school participants was to comprehensively study the legal aspects of war crimes against the environment and represent the interests of the plaintiff (Ukraine, supported by the United States, the European Union and Georgia) and the defendant (Russia, supported by Belarus, India and China) at the mock trial.