ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS AND SERVICES MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF UKRAINE’S EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION

Abstract

The development of the market of ecological goods and services hasbecome widespread in developed countries, where the instruments of state regulation of such a market, economic tools to stimulate enterprises in implementing environmental innovations, the use of mechanisms foremissions trading, etc. This paper ranks the regions of Ukraine according to the integrated index from the standpoint of environmental development, which allowed to divide the regions of Ukraine into three groups: the first group with the highest level of environmental index includes five regions, as Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Mykolayiv; the second group with an average level of ecological index includes eleven oblasts (Kirovohrad, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Khmelnytskyі, Rivne, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Cherkasy oblasts); the third group with the lowest value of the ecological index was won by seven regions (Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk regions). Thus, the formation of effective organizational and economic support for the market of environmental goods and services in Ukraine will create the conditions for economic growth and implementation of the provisions of the concept of sustainable development. This article examines the prospects for the formation of the market of environmental goods and services in Ukraine, the formation of organizational and economic foundations of its effective functioning. The actual state of development of the market of ecological goods and services in the countries of the European Union has been analyzed and new tendencies of formation of the national market of ecological goods and services according to the concept of sustainable development have been outlined.