Iryna Ivanivna Stavchuk (Ukrainian: Ірина Іванівна Ставчук) is a Ukrainian writer, ex deputy minister and climate policy advisor. She was recognized as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2023.[1]
She began work at the National Environmental Center of Ukraine where she worked on climate related policies. She was helping to organise Ukraine's response to climate change and she worked with the United Nations with their negotiations concerning climate for over a decade.[3]
In 2008 the World Bank established a Clean Technology Fund.[4] Stavchuk has served on that fund's board of directors.[3]
In 2017 she was working at the Center for Environmental Initiatives (Ecoaction)[5] which she had co-founded. In 2019 she left being Ecoaction's Executive Director [6] to become a Deputy Minister in Ukraine. She was responsible for climate issues until 2022.[3] She noted that people's lives were being given priority after the Russian invasion but there was environmental damage too. Water treatment plants were damaged leaving sewage untreated in rivers. Bombing of industrial areas created air and land pollution. As the "deputy minister of environmental protection and natural resources of Ukraine for European integration" she tried to ensure that all of these were monitored.[2]
