Founded in 1989, KECC is active in the fields of nature conservation, bio-diversity protection, and support to environmental NGOs. Its main project, Love of Nature, seeks to promote the development of an environmental ethic in Ukraine and the former USSR, similar to the ideology that was developed in America by such writers as John Muir, Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It believes that environmental projects do not receive wide public support because they are presented in an overly scientific or economic manner.
KECC has also organized seminars for journalists and teachers, collected data on the environmental consequences of militarism, and started a program to promote public monitoring of acid rain. It has a staff of seven.