In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as a means of attaining military advantage, demoralising the population, and rendering parts of Ukraine uninhabitable. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast. Will the perpetrators of these heinous attacks be brought to justice? Where will they be tried? And what law will apply? Several speakers, who helped prepare Ukrainian prosecutors and judges to try Russian environmental war crimes, present an insider’s perspective on these questions.

Speakers:
• Mr Maksym Popov, expert of the EU Project Pravo-Justice
• Dr Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association
• Hon. Margaret deGuzman, judge of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, professor of law and co-director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Prof. Michael Scharf, chair of the IBA ICC Moot Court Competition, served as Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law from 2013-2024
• Prof. Milena Sterio, president of the International Association of Penal Law and Distinguished University Professor at Cleveland State College of Law
• Mr Andre Monette, council member of the International Bar Association’s Section on energy, environment, resources and infrastructure
• Dr Paul Williams, president of the Public International Law & Policy Group
• Mr Andriy Kostin, ambassador of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, former Ukrainian prosecutor general.