In framework of permanent cooperation with United Nations’ bodies, our Association sent to Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) submission for UN report on how climate change can have an impact on the realization of the equal gender enjoyment of the right to education.
This submission, published at UN web-sources now, describes international crimes, committed by the Russian troops, including destruction objects of civil infrastructure, forests, dams and other melioration systems by mines explosions, missiles and artillery. Submission reminds that Russian forces destroy and loot the technical equipment of Ukrainian forestry and melioration management and of national parks in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions en masse.
ARC’s submission stressed that corresponding negative impacts of Russian aggression against climate include atmospheric pollution due to mass extensive emissions of combustion products, the destruction of thousands of square kilometers of forests and plantations near frontline, as well as natural soils in the combat zone close to the Crimea, the intervention of the Russian occupiers in the melioration management and natural watercourses in all Southern Ukraine.
Submission reminded that such changes also include an indirect impact through Russian attacks on Ukrainian nuclear power facilities, such as the Zaporizhzhia NPP, and on Ukrainian green energy facilities in occupied territories and war zones.
ARC’s submission pointed that aggressor’s undermining of the Kakhovka HPP became a separate crime of genocide, including the forced deportation of the population of the villages and cities adjacent to the Dnipro in the left-bank Kherson region, the destruction of their houses and the murder of those who cannot escape flooding. Such activities make impossible the education of youth, including girls in Russia-occupied part of Kherson region, and youth, deported from Kherson region to the Crimea by Russian invaders, are object of discrimination, racism and sexual crimes.
ARC’s submission stressed again that negative climate changes are not the side effect of Russian aggression against Ukraine, but it is one of its major goals. As it is known the Kremlin administration of Russian president use the narratives that the global warming and ocean level rise are allegedly useful for Russia as such situation will allegedly allow to develop actively the natural resources of Russia-controlled northern part of Eurasia. So damage connected with climate changes, caused by Russian aggression is committed by Russia-controlled structures with direct intent.
