Environmental Rights of Ukrainian Citizens: International and European Standards and Domestic Problems

Abstract

The paper deals with modern problems of improving the consolidation, implementation, and protection of environmental rights of citizens of Ukraine; it analyzes the system of formation and development of international, European and national legal norms on the implementation and protection of environmental rights of citizens and Ukraine’s commitments to the international community to consolidate, guarantee the implementation and protection of environmental rights of citizens. Theoretical and legal analysis of the mechanism of realization of environmental rights is carried out on the basis of concrete examples at the level of national legal proceedings and cases that have been considered by the European Court of Human Rights.