On the occasion of the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, the European Union-funded programme “EU4Environment – Water Resources and Environmental Data” and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine organised a round table on ‘Clean Air in Peace and War time: monitoring air quality in Ukraine‘ on 07 September 2022.
The main purpose of this event was to discuss how the government and civil society can join forces to collect reliable data and make informed decision to protect people’s health and the environment. Several initiatives from the Ukrainian civil society help monitoring air quality through sensors and data visualising tools.
The round table was attended by representatives of: the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and the State Environmental Academy of Ukraine, the Statistics Agency, the Ukrainian civil society, the EU Delegation to Ukraine, and relevant EU-funded programmes.