Bìznes Inform (Mar 2018)
The Ecological Investments in the Context of Ecological Preparation of the Stable Development of Enterprise
Abstract
The status and problems of eco-investment in Ukraine, as well as its importance for ensuring the sustainable development of enterprise are analyzed. The definition of the concept of «eco-investment» is clarified as an investment of capital in its intellectual, material and monetary forms in creation, modernization, introduction of ecologically safe fixed assets, technologies to be used in the production of ecological products and environmental means in order to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution of the natural environment. The structural elements of eco-investment process, basic conditions, tasks and principles of eco-investment at macro- and microlevels, which would ensure achievement of sustainable development goals, have been substantiated. The directions of ecological preparation of production are delineated in accordance with the objects of eco-investment and the stages of its implementation. The authors substantiate the importance of ecological preparation of sustainable development of production, which is the main vector of eco-investment, the result of neglect of which in the past has become a complex ecological situation today. This kind of preparation of production with the help of eco-investment will enable economic entities to prevent in a timely manner the negative impact of their activity on the environment or to reduce it.
