4th International Symposium “Rebuilding a Place to Call Home: Recovery Towards Net Zero”

Lviv host­ed the 4th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium “Rebuild­ing a Place to Call Home: Recov­ery Towards Net Zero” on 17–18 Octo­ber 2025, bring­ing togeth­er around 100 par­tic­i­pants from Ukraine and abroad.

The event gath­ered experts from acad­e­mia, engi­neer­ing, urban plan­ning, envi­ron­men­tal fields, inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions and civ­il soci­ety. Over two days, speak­ers dis­cussed cli­mate poli­cies, green recon­struc­tion, spa­tial plan­ning, land man­age­ment and sus­tain­able invest­ment. The pro­gramme was struc­tured into four tracks cov­er­ing reforms for cli­mate neu­tral­i­ty, inno­va­tions in con­struc­tion, land-use plan­ning and financ­ing tools for Net Zero. Par­tic­i­pants high­light­ed the need to inte­grate cli­mate goals into all aspects of Ukraine’s recov­ery and strength­en coop­er­a­tion across sec­tors.

The Sym­po­sium was organ­ised by KSA’s Land and Hous­ing Research Cen­tre, Ecoac­tion, Oxford University’s Pro­gramme for Sus­tain­able Urban Devel­op­ment, UN-Habi­tat Urban Lab Ukraine, CEE Bankwatch and the Ukrain­ian Catholic Uni­ver­si­ty with sup­port from EU4ClimateResilience, project joint­ly co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union and the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty (BMUKN).