Problem setting. Transformation of social relations, as well as the state of the natural environment necessitate the study of the origins of development and the formation of Ukrainian legislation in this area. Rapid rates of man-made load, depletion of natural resources, impossibility (or slow) recovery of natural resources - all these are factors that encourage rapid further steps towards innovative solutions to the use and protection of the environment. Alternative energy sources, the so-called renewable energy sources, are becoming increasingly popular due to their potential and environmental and economic characteristics of use.
The object of the origins of the development of legal relations on the use and protection of the environment in the field of innovation.
The subject of the study is the historical aspects of the regulation of legal relations on the use and protection of the environment in the field of innovation.
The state of research of the problem. The origins of scientific research on the relationship between the use and protection of the environment have repeatedly attracted the attention of researchers. In particular, in this area there were publications of legal scholars: A.P. Hetman, H.V. Anisimova, V.L. Bredikhina, M.V. Krasnova, Y.S. Shemshuchenko, N.R. Malysheva, G.N. Polyanskaya, V.G. Emelyanova, V.V. Nosik and others.
However, the study that would be aimed at analyzing the normative regulation of legal relations on the use and protection of the environment in the field of innovation has not yet been, which prompted us to choose this topic of research.
The target of this research is to identify and analyze the origins of legislation and scientific achievements in this area.
Scientific novelty is the search for and further development of an effective mechanism for regulating the legal relationship between the use and protection of the environment in the field of innovation.
Article’s main body. The historical continuity and recurrence of the main legal forms, as emphasized in the literature, make it possible to predict the direction of further development of legislation taking into account the maximum use of valuable historical experience, on the one hand, and avoid future use of legal forms that have failed.
Conclusions. Today we can conclude that nature management is irrational, leads to depletion (or disappearance) of natural resources, there is a violation of the ecological balance of natural systems - as a result of rising Earth temperature, destruction of ecosystems, deteriorating human health. Rapid population growth has been observed with great progress, and industrial development has contributed to the increase in energy consumption and the use of non-renewable energy resources, the mass consumption of which has had negative consequences for the environment.
Unlike countries with more developed economies, Ukraine is only at the beginning of its path of saving the environment, but instead continues to operate an extensive type of economic development. Natural resources are not used efficiently enough, and if we do not take decisive action, we can already have irreversible consequences. The answer to this should be alternative energy sources - renewable, resource-saving, waste-free (low-waste).
Attendance at a symposium on alternative energy sources for the steel industry held at the state university of New York, Buffalo and technical visits in the Pittsburgh area