State Policy of Environmental Convergence in Economy Transition to Sustainable Development

Sergey Zhironkin,Olga Zhironkina,Leszek Sobik,S Zhironkin,S Vöth,S Spearing,J Janocko,L Sobik,N Demirel,M Cehlár,D Szurgacz

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202127803029

Abstract

Structural shifts caused by the expansion of "green" convergent technologies significantly enhance the ecological convergence of the economies in the countries in which they determine the exit to the trajectory of sustainable development. At the same time, in an economy where the commercialization and diffusion of green technologies is constrained by structural problems, the prerequisites for environmental divergence are formed, which can finally consolidate technological lag and a long-term trend of environmental degradation. The transition from environmental divergence to convergence should be carried out in a system of convergentoriented structural policy. It presents a three-level complex: targeted changes in the reproductive structure, the proportion of production factors (the first level); impact on the sectoral, technological, market-competitive, social structures of the economy (the second level), development of research, production and financial infrastructure for the commercialization and transfer of "green" technologies (the third level).

Highlights

Ecological convergence means such a change in the structural proportions of the national economy, which brings it closer to technologically ecological countries in environmental, reproduction, technological and sectoral, social criteria, and, as a consequence, in proximity to the trajectory of sustainable development
We identified the following as the reasons for the environmental divergence of the Russian economy: 1. State support for the development of science and technology is concentrated in narrow areas of research related to the extraction of raw materials and national defense, without an emphasis on enhancing the international diffusion of green convergent technologies
The term "structural policy" in the works of prominent economists is often associated with the regulation of macroeconomic dynamics, rather than the entire complex of sustainable development – environmental, sectoral, technological, innovative, market, social proportions – everything that is collectively associated with a structural shift

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Introduction

Ecological convergence means such a change in the structural proportions of the national economy, which brings it closer to technologically ecological countries in environmental, reproduction (resource use, capital accumulation and consumption), technological and sectoral, social criteria, and, as a consequence, in proximity to the trajectory of sustainable development. Factors of environmental convergence include the growth of direct environmentally related investments, replacement of outdated equipment and technologies, increased commercialization and cross-industry transfer of innovations in green start-ups, a change in the structure of employment in favor of high-tech and research sectors, the formation of elite social groups focused on environmental protection, implementation environmental-stimulating structural policy. Ecological convergence is the strengthening of the factors of structural shift, concentrating the effective diffusion of the latest achievements of scientific and technological progress, in combination with institutional, reproductive, market-competitive, social conditions. It is typical for countries in which the factor efficiency of capital and technology begins to return from the land factor in the form of natural rent (Singapore and South Korea, the countries of North America, Eastern and Western Europe)

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