scholarly journals Carbon Tax Perspectives in Ukraine: Legal Regulation and Comparison of the National and European Experience of Implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Svitlana Romanko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Carbon Taxation ◽  
Business Entities

Environmental tax in general is one of the state's instruments in environmental protection and financing of the environmental protection measures. The purpose of the tax is to encourage business entities to reduce emissions / discharges of pollutants into the air / water bodies, to establish direct dependence of the amount of tax deductions on the degree of negative impact on the environment, mobilization of funds to budgets of different levels in order to finance the costs of protection and rational use of natural resources. This article examines and compares with Ukraine and EU countries the experience, rates and background policies of the carbon taxation. The carbon tax as an environmental tax with a significant effect on economic and legal incentives for business entities and state authorities to fulfill the policy of energy efficiency, energy saving and energy transition to renewable energy sources what is coincided with the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and achievement of National Determined Contributions according to the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol. The main issue is that rate of carbon tax, used nowadays in Ukraine is not being sufficient to provide the energy transition of country economy to the less consuming model according the examples from Germany, Netherlands, Finland and other countries of Europe. Interconnected linkage between carbon tax, energy and climate policy is proven in the article along with mechanisms of economic, political and environmental peculiarities and benefits of the carbon taxation regulation improvement in national legislation

ESTABLISHMENT AND CURRENT STATE OF LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT OF WIND ENERGY IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karyna Karakhanian ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Alternative Energy Sources ◽  
World Energy

The article considers the legal basis for the formation and development of the country's energy sector, in particular, the issue of energy production from renewable sources, among which the leading place belongs to wind energy. The tendencies of the world energy market, which minimize the negative impact on the environment, as well as the tendencies of development of this branch in Ukraine are investigated. It was stated that for our country wind energy is one of the strategic directions of development of the sector of alternative energy sources, given the high dependence of the country on imported energy, primarily natural gas, and significant potential for wind power, taking into account the location, climate and terrain. However, unfortunately, the pace of development of wind energy in Ukraine still lags significantly behind European ones. It is noted that the legislative provision of the use of wind energy in Ukraine as a source of alternative energy is characterized primarily by the number of bylaws, general declarative legislation, as well as some inconsistencies in legal regulation. An analysis of current legislation and a number of regulations governing the development of the industry in general and wind energy in particular. A review of the norms that relate purely to the issues of the research area and their features and direction of legal regulation. In addition, it was stressed that Ukraine's accession to European initiatives, as well as borrowing international experience in this area should positively affect the energy balance and ensure the development of the sector, in particular, in the light of the need to create a full competitive environment in Ukraine's energy market; changes in heat generation by renewable energy sources and the full transformation of coal regions, which means the gradual closure of unprofitable enterprises with the parallel creation of alternative jobs in these regions.

scholarly journals Legal Basis for Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Elena Zaliznyak ◽  
◽  
Sergey Zhbannikov ◽  
Nataliya Morozova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
State Level ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
State Registration

Industrial enterprises and other business entities whose activities involve direct or indirect impact on environmental components must comply with legal requirements in the field of environmental protection. Over the past 5 years, there have been significant changes in environmental legislation. All objects that have a negative impact on the environment are subject to state registration. When registering an enterprise, it is subject to assignment to one of four categories of objects of negative impact, depending on the industry affiliation, production capacity, chemical composition of emissions, discharges, and other criteria. Currently, legislative innovations are aimed at business development and reducing the administrative burden on business entities, but this creates a threat to the safe operation of industrial facilities. There are more than 340 thousand objects of negative impact on the territory of Russia, of which one third is subject to Federal supervision. According to 2019 data, less than 4% of enterprises had their operational safety audits performed. The detection of violations of the requirements of legislation in the field of environmental protection, as well as failure to eliminate the identified violations, indicates the formation of potential threats to environmental safety. Taking into account the current economic crisis, in which solving environmental problems will not be a priority for business structures, the protection of the population and the natural environment is fully transferred to the state level.

ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF PROCESSING MERCURY-CONTAINING WASTE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Alla Zvyaginceva ◽  
Svetlana Sazonova ◽  
V. Kul'neva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Mercury Vapor ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
And Storage

The environmental impact of the LLC «EVO» company in Voronezh was assessed and the process of processing mercury-containing waste was analyzed. The characteristics of storage devices for storage and storage of industrial waste are considered. Comprehensive environmental protection measures aimed at reducing the negative impact of mercury-containing wastes that emit mercury vapor on air and water are proposed.

scholarly journals Problems of legal protection of industrial samples in enterprises in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-237
Author(s):  
Olga Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Business Entities

The article deals with the important problems that arise in the implementation of the legal protection of industrial designs in the enterprise in the course of their economic activity. One of the major problems associated with the legal regulation of the protection, use and protection of industrial property is the clash of the rights of some entities with the rights to other intellectual property. An example would be the collision of industrial design rights with copyright and trademark rights for goods and services. In addition, the concept of production has changed from mass to serial and customer-oriented, the life cycle of the product has been significantly reduced and its moral rapid aging has become dominant in its renewal. It was noted that there was a need to improve the legislation on industrial designs and the preliminary scientifically sound justification of strategic direction (from patenting to registration) and privacy before elaboration of relevant proposals and bills. The efficiency of legal protection of industrial designs in enterprises depends on the degree of perfection of the legislative framework. First of all, it is analyzed what violations of patent holders' rights can arise and what ways of overcoming them can be applied to reduce the negative impact of such violations on the economic growth of the enterprise. Please note that it is now very often necessary to identify major conflicting or problematic situations in granting legal protection to industrial designs and trademarks, as well as the question of the legislative and enforceable distribution of two types of exclusive rights. Often there are disputes about the relation between the legal protection of the industrial design and the trademark. This issue has been analyzed and specific proposals are made for amending existing legislation on industrial designs. Also considered are the types of patent strategies developed by major corporations in Japan, the US and Western Europe, such as: patent flood strategy, patent blocking strategy, combined patent strategy. And, based on this analysis, we recommend that they be put into practice by business entities to protect and safeguard their intellectual property rights.

scholarly journals Mental accounting shapes public support for green spending of carbon tax revenues

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathilde Mus ◽  
Coralie Chevallier ◽  
Hugo Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Mental Accounting ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Carbon Taxation ◽  
Mental Budgets

Despite its potential for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, carbon taxation encounters strong public resistance in many countries. However, social acceptability of carbon taxation heavily depends on how the generated revenues are used. Citizens prefer carbon taxation schemes where tax revenues are earmarked for environmental protection rather than for non-environmental purposes (e.g., lowering the value-added tax or labour taxes). Here, we test the hypothesis that acceptability varies across earmarking domains according to a mental accounting heuristic, by which people create mental budgets where the origin of revenues is matched thematically with their domain of use. Across two experiments conducted in the United Kingdom and in France (Ntotal = 3500), we show that citizens display a specific preference for tax designs where the earmarking domain is matched with the revenue source (i.e. a carbon tax earmarked for environmental protection), relative to an unmatched tax scheme. Moreover, we find that acceptability of carbon taxation increases with the proportion of tax revenues earmarked for environmental protection.

scholarly journals Regulation of environmental protection measures in the Caspian Sea region

2021 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Sergey Yekimov ◽  
Oleg Bavykin ◽  
Elena Kuznetsova ◽  
Roman Kucherenko ◽  
Dmitriy Kucherenko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Protection Measures

Information obtained as a result of monitoring of water bodies is taken as a basis for legal regulation of economic activities related to environmental pollution. In the context of a globalized economy, the strengthening of environmental protection measures in one of the neighboring countries often leads to the fact that the next plant will be built across the border, and its impact on the environment on a global scale will be the same. In this study, the authors studied the problem of finding new ways to solve the environmental problems of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea belongs to Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Iran. to solve the environmental problems of the Caspian Sea, it is necessary to unify the environmental legislation of these countries, similar to the unification of the environmental legislation of the European Union countries.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC METHODS AND LEGAL TOOLS FOR MANAGING ECOLOGICAL SECURITY OF THE CITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
M.V. Melnykova ◽  
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Ye.S. Hradoboyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
Legal Mechanism ◽  
The City

The article explores the possible ways of managing ecological security of the city based on the use of economic methods and legal tools. It was determined that the urbanization has a negative impact on the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to make decisions on managing ecological security of the city. The management of city’s ecological security includes both functional (planning, organization, financing, coordination, control) and situational (decision-making to stabilize the environment in emergency and crisis situations) aspects. In this case, the corresponding economic methods and legal tools are used. They aim at motivating or forcing the economic entities to plan and finance environmental protection measures in the city. To do this, the methods of economic regulation (taxation, lending, subsidizing, provision of subsidies and benefits, imposition of fines) are used. The economic methods are included in the economic mechanism for managing the ecological security of the city. This mechanism is connected with the legal mechanism for regulating environmental protection activities in the city. The legal mechanism includes legal tools (legislative acts, industry regulations, decisions and orders made by local authorities) for managing environmental security. The choice of economic methods and legal tools depends much on internal and external factors, principles of distribution of responsibility for caused environmental damage, the need to coordinate the interests of the process actors with the management of ecological security of the city. To promote environmental safety in the city the environmental projects, environmental cooperation, and environmental entrepreneurship are of great importance. Their implementation and development are carried out using the economic methods and legal tools. At the same time, both the environmental assessment of projects and the assessment of social consequences of the decisions are made. Besides, the changes in the economic and legal regulation of economically safe development of the city also should be justified on economic grounds. The most important condition for this is the coherence of economic methods and legal tools. This coherence is possible due to the availability of information support, the development of which should become the subject of further research.

scholarly journals Risks of switching to renewable energy sources

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
E.S. Romanova ◽  
A.A. Masalkova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2

This research work is devoted to the issue of studying the key risks of switching to renewable energy sources. The relevance of the topic of work is determined by the fact that, according to climatologists [5], climate change, which has a negative impact on the environment, is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2). For this reason, measures to prevent or reduce greenhouse gas emissions are at the heart of the energy transition. International treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement lay the foundations for global action to combat climate change and implement a fourth energy transition. The energy transition is characterized by a number of incentives and barriers. Despite the fact that there are many scenarios for the development of the global energy sector by 2050, the expected transformations of the energy market lead to a significant redistribution of the ratio of the shares of hydrocarbon sources and renewable energy sources [16]. The trend towards fossil fuels is on the rise. These transformations in the market are determined not only by the climate agenda, but also by the concept of sustainable economic development.

Legal regulation of utilization non-suitable pesticides accumulated during the USSR

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafurova Olena ◽  
◽  
Kukhar Olga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
State Level ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Ecological Situation ◽  
Obsolete Pesticides

The article provides a scientific and theoretical analysis of the legislation of the USSR, Ukrainian legislation. Particular attention is paid to establishing features in the legal regulation of seizure, utilization, destruction and disposal of unusable or prohibited pesticides and agrochemicals and containers from them. The authors conclude that today, given the need to improve the environment, more efforts are needed at the state level to utilize pesticides accumulated during the Soviet era, primarily to approve the state program with clear measures for its implementation and sources of funding. Today, regional state administrations have the opportunity without the intervention of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine to solve problems with obsolete pesticides and agrochemicals, as well as to determine where it is most profitable to dispose of these substances. Thus, to date, the process of reducing unusable pesticides has been launched. It aims to improve the ecological situation in the country, help reduce the negative impact on people's lives and health, and allow agriculture to develop. Keywords: waste, industrial waste, pesticides, plants protecting products, utilization of pesticides, container, agriculture

scholarly journals Analysis of state of public financing of environmental protection

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (13 (114)) ◽  
pp. 106-119
Author(s):  
Nataliia Yaroshevych ◽  
Volodymyr Stybel ◽  
Bogdan Gutyj ◽  
Oleh Hrymak ◽  
Lesya Kushnir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Significant Discrepancy ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Public Economy

The main task of this study consists in evaluating the state of funding for environmental protection measures and substantiating the ability of the state and local communities to increase investments in environmental protection. To this end, the following was studied from 2010 through 2020: 1) mechanisms of filling and using funds of the Environmental Protection Fund of state and local budgets; 2) proportions of distribution of environmental revenues and expenditures between levels of the budget system. The analysis results showed that opportunities of the public economy sector in terms of environmental investment are reduced because of imperfect distributing mechanisms: ‒ the budgetary expenditures for environmental protection measures; ‒ the environmental tax revenues to the budget funds. It was established that a significant part (about 70 %) of the "environmental" funds of the public economy sector is directed to non-priority goals and measures. Less than half of the amount of environmental tax revenues is allocated for financing environmental activities. This does little to address pressing environmental issues and hinders the sustainable development of the country. There was a significant discrepancy between the tax burden on "polluters" of water bodies (3 % of the total amount of environmental tax) and the levels of their polluting activities (30‒40 % of all costs of the national economy to eliminate the effects of pollution). In order to increase public investments in the reproduction of the environmental and natural resource potential: 1) ways to improve the mechanism of using the Fund of Environmental Protection were proposed; 2) reserves for increasing capital environmental investments from the budget have been identified.

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