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Dear
friends!
UWEC
Work Group needs your support to continue
covering the environmental consequences of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for a wide
audience. We remain a critical resource for
research and articles on the war are published
not only in Ukrainian, but also in English and
Russian. We approach translation into English
with special care to access a wide audience. We
work with native speakers, and our whole team is
an international association of experts,
journalists and researchers, enabling us not
only to present information in a wide context
and variety of perspectives.
Today,
our work is especially important, as more
research on the environmental and climate
consequences of the invasion have begun to
appear. Against the background of other
important news stories, the Russian war’s
environmental impacts and the urgent need to
take decisive climate action seem to fade into
the background.
Among
multiple crises with important global
ramifications, Ukraine must remain a priority
topic in the media. Data collection and analysis
of the war’s impacts on nature, nature’s
adaptation to the realities of war and,
eventually, post-war times and “green recovery”
projects is critical. UWEC’s coverage informs
global peace-building and conflict resolution.
Ukrainian experience also highlights solutions
that other countries affected by military action
can put to use.
Global
uncertainty and changing priorities affects
donors and institutional funders and the
initiatives they support and UWEC is not alone
in feeling those changes. Our team
remains committed even as grant funding
decreases. UWEC maintains its publishing
schedule for the time being and we are
determined to continue working as long as we
can.
UWEC
needs increased resources for this media
initiative to continue and grow. We are pleased
to invite our readers to support our
publication. We hope you will take this
opportunity to make a one-time donation or
subscribe to a monthly newsletter. For our part,
we promise to continue publishing timely stories
and analysis and actively participate in
discussions of issues of adaptation and
overcoming the environmental consequences of the
Russian war in Ukraine.
Our
hearts remain in Ukraine and humanity is
balancing on the knife’s edge of multiple
military conflicts. We will be grateful for your
heartfelt commitment to the region’s
environment.
UWEC
Work Group Team
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