Increasing resource efficiency in the industrial complex ensuring environmental human rights

Liudmyla Deineko,Mykola Sychevskiy,Nadiia Grebeniuk,Olena Tsyplitska,Oleksandr Deineko

doi:10.21511/ee.12(1).2021.11

Abstract

The close relationship between industrial development and environmental pollution is considered the main problem of negative climate changes and the deterioration of life quality leading to an increase in mortality. In this regard, the protection of environmental human rights is of great importance. The paper aims to assess the trends of industrial influence on the human environment and the level of protection of environmental human rights in different countries through reviewing and analysis of the set of relevant studies. The paper brings novelty exploring an array of objectives for protecting human environmental rights in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, implementation of a circular and resource-efficient economy, together with the Industry 4.0 technologies for industrialized countries, including Ukraine. Most studies consider contradictions between the economic and environmental goals of both businesses and the state the main obstacle for the ecologization of industrial production. The economic feasibility of introducing more resource-efficient business models has been proved. The impact of Ukrainian industrial companies on the environment and the state of human environmental rights protection is studied. The results of the study allow stating that the resource and energy inefficiency of industrial technology in the country, as well as the weakness of state institutions in the implementation of reforms for sustainable development, is a fundamental threat to human rights and a healthy life.

Highlights

Relations between society and nature in the modern era are complex and contradictory
On development of legislation on the protection of the other hand, it will expand the environmen- environmental human rights, as well as environtal rights of the population and further protect it mental and economic legislation governing the against industrial pollution, as well as accelerate “green” transformation of the industrial sector and three-sectoral cooperation
The paper describes the modern studies on environmental human rights and their protection through the improvement of industrial production resource efficiency

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Relations between society and nature in the modern era are complex and contradictory. The enterprises of heavy industry Discussions about the composition and steps necwere recognized as the largest atmospheric pol- essary to protect environmental human rights in lutants in Ukraine: mining and quarrying (20.1% international and national systems of legislation, of total industrial emissions), metallurgy (30.3%), as well as the development of concepts on the enand electric power production (43.1%). Institution “Institute of Economics and Forecasting At the same time, positive trends in industrial of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” resource saving should be accompanied by the in 2021 It made it possible to identify key threats awareness of their responsibility for the negative to the future for the economic development of the health and environmental effects. Heavy energy dependence on the aggressor country, which cannot be resolved through the development of alternative energy sources

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