Shkarupa O.
PhD, Assoc. Professor, Assoc. Professor, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
Burlakova I.
PhD, Assoc. Professor, Assoc. Professor, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
MODELING OF THE «GREEN» ECONOMY IN UKRAINE:
CONCEPTUAL BASICS AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Introduction. In recent years, the concept of "green" economic growth has
created new problems for scientists who are involved in the formation of the necessary
prerequisites for sustainable development. The problems that arise the questions of
funding, demographic and social changes, political instability, the low quality of
institutions and the instability of markets, encourage scientists to debate how the state
can help create an enabling environment for achieving sustainable development. The
expected progressive changes in the economies of Ukraine are the cause for the need
to create the prerequisites for sustainable development, which in turn envisages a
transition from an orientation towards the consumption of natural resources, as
materials and energy, to an orientation towards a more rational use of these with the
activation of the use of environmental and social functions of nature. Of great
importance in this context is the ecologically oriented development of the basic sectors
of economy: organic farming, forestry, recreational complexes, tourism sector, creative
economy and other sectors of the economy that form the basis of the soybean economy.
These spheres of economic activity have a significant potential in increasing the
competitiveness of economic systems in Ukraine. To achieve this, it is necessary to
solve the problems of assessing the process of sustainable development at the national
level.
Within the last few years in the Ukrainian economy significant transformation
changes in the direction of «green» growth have been observed. On the background of
a significant reduction in consumption and import of natural gas, during the first half
of 2018, almost 270 MW of capacities was installed in Ukraine, which generates
electricity from renewable energy sources at a feed-in tariff. This is 2 times more than
in the first half of 2017 (127 MW) and exceeds the capacity set for the whole 2017
(257 MW). In total, from the beginning of 2015 by the end of the second quarter of
2018, 677 MW of new capacities of renewable energy were commissioned, with more
than 650 million euro invested.
Specific tasks and priorities of "green" economic growth in Ukraine are identified
in the National Renewable Energy Action Plan till 2020, Energy Strategy of Ukraine
till 2030, Energy Community Directives, EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and
other strategic documents. Also, the author [Melnyk 2016, 31] notes that a significant
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