Since Ukraine is an agrarian country, the importance of knowledge about climate change cannot be overestimated. In fact, today we already have regions where we harvest potatoes and corn twice a year, and regions where grapes and peaches ripen, which have not even been cultivated before. It is very important to talk not only about climate change as a global catastrophe, but also about the new challenges and opportunities that come with it.

Mariana Verbovska is a journalist at ZAXID.NET in Lviv. Currently she is a Milena Jesenská Visiting Fellow at the IWM.