On December 3, in Dubai, within the framework of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), an expert from our Association took part in the side event of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center “Impact on Climate Change: Crimea, Indigenous Peoples and International Crimes”, organized in the Ukrainian pavilion of the Conference, opened on this day under the auspices of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.
Other speakers at the event were Center experts Eskender Bariev, Evgeniy Khlobystov and Lyudmila Korotkikh. During the side event, the speakers spoke about the problems and consequences caused by the occupation of Crimea in 2014, as well as the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Borys Babin in his speech noted that Russia is using global warming as a tool of Russian aggression and pointed to the prospects of bringing the aggressor to justice for the crimes he has committed against Ukrainian and regional ecosystems.
