Legal Regulation of Criminal Liability for Crimes Agains the Environment

Abstract

The article analyzes the current legislation of Ukraine in the field of criminal liability for crimes against the environment. Special attention is paid to the importance of enhancing criminal liability to ensure, provided by the Constitution of Ukraine as a fundamental law and guarantor of constitutional rights and freedoms of a person and citizen for the crimes against the environment and to compensate for the damage caused by the violation of this right. However, today one of the global problems is climate change owing to strengthening industrial pollution, increasing the number of vehicles, that do not follow environmental standards and other factors that pollute the natural environment.