Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство захисту довкілля та природних ресурсів, romanized: Ministerstvo zakhystu dovkillia ta pryrodnykh resursiv) is the main authority in the system of central government of Ukraine responsible for ecological monitoring and development of the country. As a government ministry it exists since 1991 being formed during dissolution of the Soviet Union.
History This government institution was established in 1967 as the State Committee of Nature Protection. In 1978, it was merged into the All-Union State Committee under the same name centered in Moscow. Following Ukraine's declaration of independence, the state committee was reorganized into the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine. In 1995–2000, the ministry also supervised nuclear safety as the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine. In 2000, it switched to its current name until 2003 and recovered it again in 2010. In 2003-2010 it was the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine. On 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk Government merged the ministry into the Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining. But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created (the ecology ministry) on 27 May 2020. The new returning post of ecology minister was filled when Roman Abramovsky was appointed by parliament on 19 June 2020. On 17 July 2025 the ministry was once again merged, this time with the Ministry of Economy.
Structure The ministry is headed by the minister of ecology and natural resources, the first deputy, and other deputies to assist the minister. The ministry elects several state administrations representatives to coordinate operation of selected government companies.
Central body Minister State agencies Administration of organizational-analytical support to Minister Control-Revisionary Section Collegiate of Ministry First Deputy Department of State Ecological Policy and International Actions Legal Department Section in relationship with press media and public Administration in property, job security, material-technical and informational support Chief Specialist in Mobilization Division of controls and checks in execution of acts and decrees of higher bodies of state power Division of regime-secret actions Deputy – Head of Central Body Department of Ecological Security Department of Economics and Finances Administration of State Ecological Monitoring Section of state expertise Section of human resources Section of accounting and financial report Division of tender procedures Deputy Department of Conservation Affairs Department in Security of Natural Resources and Eco-Network
State agencies State Service of Geology and Resources (official website if inaccessible ) Nadra Ukrainy (official website) State Agency of Water Resources (official website) State Agency of Ecological Investments (official website) State Ecological Inspection (official website)
Other institutions Ukrainian Science-Research Institute of Ecological problems, Kharkiv (official website) Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea, aka UkrSCES (Odesa) (official website)
Black Sea Globe In 2023, UkrSCES, with the support of EU and UNDP, opened the Kids Scientific-Art School “The Gllobe of The Black Sea” (or “Black Sea Globe”) in Odesa and Mykolaiv. In 2024 its students hosted artworks exhibitions under the title “Black Sea Globe”, commonly representing portolans of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov painted in artistic style.
List of ministers
Ecology and natural resources
Energy and environmental protection
Environmental protection and natural resources
See also Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of ecological policy Emerald Network of Ukraine
References
External links Official Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Ecology