The National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU) is an ecological non-governmental non-profit organization which aims to create a healthy environment and improve the quality of people’s life in Ukraine. NECU was established in 1991 and has consolidated scientists, journalists, artists, students and other individuals for joint and solid actions to protect the environment

The organization has 20 branches in different regions, in particular, in all the Black Sea regions of Ukraine. NECU works to bring environmental consideration into the core of any decision. We aim to bring concerns of the local population and experts to the politicians, to redesign strategies and projects. We work both to save nature, by maintaining and creating new protected areas, and to decrease human impact on the environment, through policy changes in energy, transport and other sectors. Among our priorities: preservation of biodiversity and water resources, climate change, transport, waste management, opposition to traditional energy (nuclear, hydro, etc.) and development of RES, ecosystem approach, work with local communities, promotion of European integration of Ukraine, as well as the most recent ones are assessment of environmental damages due to the russian war and green recovery of Ukraine after the war.

NECU is actively cooperating with other non-profit groups and separate citizens. NECU is a member of the following associations and networks: WG3 «Environment, Climate Change and Energy Security» Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, WG5 5 «Energy, Transport, Environment and Climate Change» EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform, the public council under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, the Ukrainian NGOs Working Group on Global Climate Change, Ukrainian River Network, CEE Bankwatch Network, Transport&Environment. NECU is represented in the working group “Ecological safety” of the National Council for the Reconstruction of Ukraine and the working group on damage assessment of russian military aggression on the environment.