1 of 2 presentations

1. Climate change and
natural hazards in
Moldova and Ukraine
Olena Maslyukivska
Maslyukivska@gmail.com
16 June 2021

2. What environmental
problems worry you
the most?
Source:
https://www.ua.undp.org/content/ukraine/uk/home/library/e
nvironment_energy/report_priorities-of-ukrainian-in-
environment-sustainable-energy.html

3. 0.7%
1.5%
1.5%
5.9%
9.3%
10.4%
13.4%
18.2%
20.4%
22.9%
23.5%
28.2%
28.7%
31.5%
34.4%
38.1%
45.9%
51.0%
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0%
Other
I do not care about environmentakl problems
Difficult to say
Noise pollution
Ozone layer depeletion
Electromagnetc pollution (Wi-Fi, mobiles, 5G тощо)
Biodiversity degradation
Floods
Radioactive pollution
Global climate change
Lack of greenery
Natural resources exhaustion
Low food quality
Droughts, forest fires
Soil pollution, land degradation
Air pollution
Increase of household and industrial waste
Water Pollution
What environmental problems concern you the most?
(Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Ukraine, 2021)

4. Moldova: Public perception of
environmental issues (surveys 2012-2017)
1.The absence of a waste management system /
unauthorized landfills
2.Water pollution
3.Depletion of water resources
4.Soil erosion and landslides
5.Deforestation and illegal cutting of the trees
Anastasia Costișanu (2019) Public perception of environmental issues and climate change in
the Republic of Moldova: a systematic review

5. Global Risks Landscape
How do respondents perceive
the impact and likelihood of
global risks?
Source: World Economic Forum Global
Risks Perception Survey 2020

6. Global Risks Landscape
How do respondents perceive
the impact and likelihood of
global risks?
Source: World Economic Forum Global
Risks Perception Survey 2020

7. Evolving
Risks
Landscape
Source: World Economic Forum
Global Risks Perception Survey 2020

8. Evolving
Risks
Landscape
Source: World Economic Forum
Global Risks Perception Survey 2020

9. Moldova: droughts
• 1990 and 2007 the country
experienced 9 droughts.
• 2007 - the record drought
affected 75-80% of the
country area with severe
consequences for the
national economy
Source: https://www.zdg.md/en/?p=5383

10. Moldova: Attribution (%) of the economic
losses to weather and climate related hazards
Armaş, Andrei & Man, Teodor & Sabău, Nicu & Beilicci, Robert. (2016). Vulnerability
assessment and mitigation measures in Republic of Moldova. Scientific Bulletin of
Politechnica University of Timișoara: Transactions on Hydrotechnics. 61(75).

11. Ukraine: forest fires in 2020
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/australian-bushfires-the-canary-building-the-coal-mine/a-51955677

12. Wildfires and Climate Change
What’s the connection?
Source:
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/fi
les/2020-09/wildfires-global-warming-
united-states-infographic.pdf

13. Ukraine: flash floods in cities
Source: https://hromadske.ua/posts/kyiv-u-vodi-zlyvy-znovu-zatopyly-stolytsiu

14. Moldova: floods
• Each year, 70,000 people suffer
from floods and the damage
reaches an average of USD 100
million (WB, 2017)
• In 2008, Moldova was hit by the
worst flooding in 70 years
• the water level in the river was
about 10 meters high
• The damage caused by the floods
of summer 2008 were valued at
USD 120 million destroyed real
estate, infrastructure and crops.

15. 2008 flood in Moldova and Ukraine + 2020
Ukraine
Sources: https://www.rferl.org/a/hundreds-evacuated-after-massive-floods-hit-western-
ukraine/30689946.html
https://en.publika.md/world-bank-experts-moldova-is-vulnerable-to-floodings_2633922.html
https://ru.sputnik.md/society/20151019/2487568.html
Moldova

16. Ukraine: Urban
heat islands (2018)
Source: https://misto.lun.ua/urbanheatisland

17. Source: https://www.env-health.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/11/Climate-Change-Health-Infographic-V3.pdf

18. Moldova
Source: USAID (2017) Climate change risk profile for Moldova

19. Ukraine
Source: USAID (2017) Climate change risk profile for Ukraine

20. Moldova: Internationally
Reported Losses 1990 - 2014
EMDAT (International Disaster
Database www.emdat.be)
Source; https://www.preventionweb.net/countries/mda/data/

21. Ukraine: Internationally
Reported Losses 1990 - 2014
EMDAT (International Disaster
Database www.emdat.be)
https://www.preventionweb.net/countries/ukr/data/

22. MD-UA transboundary
issue
"I expressed concern regarding the
situation of the Dniester River and
in particular about the proposal to
build hydropower plants. I
reiterated the proposal to ask the
European Union to make an
environmental impact assessment,
which I will do during my upcoming
visit to Brussels,“
Moldova’s President Maia Sandu
December 2020

23. External drivers for environmental policies
MD/UA
policies
EU
Association
agreement
EU Green
Deal
Eastern
Partnership
Agenda
2030 and
SDGs