Pavlo Khazan (born November 17, 1974,

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

) is a Ukrainian scientist, politician, Lt. Colonel of the

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, participant in the

Russian War in Ukraine The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revo ...

, co-founder of the environmental monitoring system, and a Deputy of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (VII and VIII convocation).

Biography

Pavlo Khazan is a developer of civil and military engineering systems, author of scientific papers on ecology, renewable energy, economics and statistics, the poetry collection "C-moll" (2010), the author and participant of the international music album "Source" (

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, 1995) and the documentary film " When the bells will ring..." about the environmental disaster in Ukraine, co-author of regional environmental strategies and programs. The author of music and songs based on his own poems, as well as on poems by

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, Mykola Voronyi and others.

Career

He is a physicist and electrical engineer by training with a Ph.D. in statistics. In 1996 he graduated from the

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, uk, Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is an establishment of higher education in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. ...

, where he also completed a military course and commissioned in Army reserve as a lieutenant. In 2000 he completed post-graduate studies at the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...

majoring in environmental safety and in 2008 he held a scholarship of the John Smith Trust in the UK. Since 1991, Khazan was a member of the environmental movement, participated in international campaigns Towards the Sustainable Europe, Sustainable Use Resources in Europe, and Energy Alternatives for Sustainable Europe. In 1994 he founded the Youth Environmental League of Prydniprovya . Since 1996 he engaged in research in the field of

sustainable development Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...

renewable energy sources Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...

environmental monitoring Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterize and monitor the quality of the environment. Environmental monitoring is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, as well a ...

, mathematical modelling, and development of waste management programs at the Institute of Ecology of the

. He is an expert in energy and green economy projects in cooperation with the

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lan ...

and the

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (English: ''German Agency for International Cooperation GmbH''), often simply shortened to GIZ, is the main German development agency. It is headquartered in Bonn and Eschb ...

. Led various public campaigns, including anti-

shale gas Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has made large volumes of shale gas more economical to produce, and some a ...

(compacted sandstone gas) in Ukraine in cooperation with Milieudefensie and

Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 73 countries. The organization was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower's split with ...

. From 2003 to 2008 he participated in the work of the UN Sustainable Development Commission. He was engaged in the development and implementation of international conventions, in particular the electronic tools of the Convention on access to information, public participation in the decision-making process and access to justice on issues related to the environment (the

Aarhus Convention The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, usually known as the Aarhus Convention, was signed on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus. It entered int ...

). He was a participant of the

UN Conference on Sustainable Development The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20 (), or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals ...

( Earth Summit 2012) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During 2007-2012 he was an organizer of the public campaigns to close the landfill on Igren and against illegal construction on Lots-Kamyanka in

., he was also a Deputy chairman of the Green Party of Ukraine and Ukrainian representative to the

European Green Party The European Green Party (EGP), also referred to as European Greens, is the European political party that represents national parties from across Europe who share Green values. The European Greens works closely with the Greens–European Fre ...

, participated in the preparation of program documents in cooperation with The Greens/EFA group in the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

. From 2013 to 2014 he was one of the organisers of the

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

in Dnipro, participant of the

Revolution of Dignity The Revolution of Dignity ( uk, Революція гідності, translit=Revoliutsiia hidnosti) also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution,

in Kyiv. In January 2014, during protests near the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, his eyes were injured. Since 2015, he has been a deputy of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, a member of the Environmental and Energy Committee. Co-author of the Comprehensive Program for Environmental Safety and Climate Change Prevention, the Strategy for Energy Saving, Energy Efficiency and Development of Renewable Energy Sources. The documents are based on the principles of the

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the ...

, the

Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part ...

and the

Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement (french: Accord de Paris), often referred to as the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords, is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, Climate change a ...

. An important goal of the strategy is the complete abandonment of fossil fuels. Co-founder of the Environmental Monitoring Centre, where he was Head of Science and Engineering. The monitoring system became a practical implementation of the principles of the

. He is a co-author of the report Environmental conferences of Russian War in Ukraine in 2022. Lt. Col. Khazan is a veteran of the Russian War in Ukraine, participated in the Anti-Terrorist operation (2014-2015, 2017-2018), the Joint Forces Operation (2018-2020), and since 25 February 2022 when the Russia full scale invasion started he has mobilised again. Khazan has been serving in the

as a C4 and Cyber officer, the C4ISR Group Commander and the Chief of the Unmanned Aviation Department. He has volunteered through the same military territorial centre where his grandfather Boris Khazan was sent to the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

as a volunteer in 1941.

External links

A Lieutenant-Colonel's frontline reality
(Battleground:Ukraine Podcast with

Saul David Professor Julian Saul David (born 1966) is a British academic military historian and broadcaster. He is best known for his work on the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Anglo-Zulu War, as well as for presenting and appearing in documentaries on ...

and Patrick Bishop)
Ukraine’s Jewish Community Fights Back Against Russia’s Invasion — and Against Putin’s Lies

Will Putin go nuclear? BATTLEGROUND: UKRAINE
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Traditional, heavy warfare has returned to Europe with Ukraine conflict

Battleground: Ukraine. One Year On

Ukrainian frontline with Pavlo Khazan — Are you ready to protect human life? Freedom, Fighting and the Future of Democracy

Témoignage «Nous, l’armée ukrainienne, défendons maintenant l’Europe et le reste du monde»

Mens Rusland advarer om risiko for en tredje verdenskrig, er den ifølge Pavlo Khazan ...

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Pavlo Khazan on Twitter

Official website

References

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