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Synergies for Resilience: Integrated Path to Climate and Biodiversity Goals in Ukraine and Beyond

18. November 2025
13:00-14:30
Ukraine Pavilion
  • Day theme: Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity, while spotlighting Indigenous peoples, Local and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs
    • GIZ
    • Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture
    • Oxford Net Zero

      COP30, hosted in the Amazon heartland, represents an important opportunity to discuss biodiversity-climate synergies under CBD and UNFCCC. Ukraine’s pavilion event aligns with this by addressing how war exacerbates dual crises—e.g., 139,000 km² of potential landmine contamination threatening biodiversity, alongside a 76% emissions drop in 2023 due to economic disruption (yet risking rebound without sustained action). Ukraine’s experience offers lessons for resilience in fragile contexts, tying into COP30 themes of “Finance for Forest” and “Peace-Climate Nexus.” As an EU candidate, Ukraine’s strategies mirror the European Green Deal, promoting equitable transitions.

      This event will spotlight Ukraine’s pioneering integration of climate and biodiversity agendas amid ongoing war and need for further recovery, emphasizing how achieving one amplifies the other. By showcasing national goals, progress-tracking mechanisms, and draft National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, NBSAP, it positions Ukraine as a model for conflict-affected nations pursuing green reconstruction aligned with the Paris Agreement and Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

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      Moderator

      Rimma Kushtym, IKI-Interface Project

      Keynote speech — Biodiversity and Climate: Dual Crises and Opportunity 

      Natalie Seddon, Professor, University of Oxford

      Speakers

      • Pavlo Kartashov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine
      • Oleg Bondarenko, Member of Parliament of Ukraine
      • Dr Aline Soterroni, Research Fellow at the Nature-based Solutions (NbSI) and Oxford Net Zero (ONZ) Initiatives;
      • Viktoriia Kyreieva, Advisor to the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management;
      • Michael Brombacher, Head of the European Department of the Frankfurt Zoological Society (tbc);
      • Volodymyr Domashlinets, IKI-Interface Project Biodiversity Expert;
      • Peter Kullberg, Researcher, Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE)
      • Tetiana Tevkun, Lead of the Thematic Team Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Energy and Environment Portfolio, UNDP Ukraine
      • Volodymyr Domashlinets, Biodiversity Expert, IKI Interface Ukraine Project, GIZ

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