Almanac of law. Issue 16 (2025), pages 61–68.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2025-16-61-68

Malysheva N. R.
Evolution of the phenomenon of environmental legislation realisation under the influence of modern challenges and threats

Ukraine is undergoing the most difficult period in its history: the Russian armed aggression has affected all aspects of public life, forcing, among other things, a reconsideration of the traditional approaches to law-making and law enforcement. The article analyses the vectors of modernization of the implementation of environmental law in the context of multidimensional existential challenges and threats, the main ones in the article being the martial law, the process of Ukraine’s European integration and climate change. The author examines the trends in the impact of each of these factors on the current realization of environmental law, as well as their interaction.

Climate change is considered to be a factor that has a powerful impact not only on the development of l law realization in Ukraine, but also one that increasingly appeals to the ideas of ‘global environmental law’.

The military operations that have been taking place on the territory of Ukraine for more than 10 years have caused and continue to cause large-scale environmental damage and have a decisive impact on the implementation of environmental legislation. The State is forced to temporarily suspend a number of environmentally oriented programmes, simplify permitting procedures and remove legal barriers to ensure the prompt extraction of strategic raw materials. Legislative mechanisms are often replaced by law enforcement or even administrative acts of local military administrations.

The key external stimulus for the development and implementation of environmental law in Ukraine is European integration, bringing it into line with the acquis communautaire. At the same time, this process requires not only the formal implementation of European norms, but also a certain rethinking: on the one hand, the integration of the values of sustainable development, transparency and environmental justice at all levels of regulation and public administration, and on the other hand, taking into account the challenges and threats facing our country. In summary, the author concludes that despite the challenges and existential threats faced by Ukraine, the State has the potential to become an example in combining environmental sustainability and legal modernization of environmental law in crisis conditions and ensuring new reliable mechanisms for their implementation.

Key words: environmental legislation, Ukraine, challenges and threats, law-making, implementation of legal norms; sustainable development, ecological safety, climate change, martial law, European integration, adaptation to EU law.

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