Environmental Protection Issues Research Articles

Financing strategy of SMEs based on the shortage of environmental protection funds

With the development of society, environmental protection issues have received increasing attention. The increase in environmental protection requirements has greatly affected small and medium-sized enterprises（SMEs）. Due to the poor credit status and imperfect systems of SMEs, financing is difficult and expensive, which makes environmental protection funds insufficient, leading to outstanding environmental protection problems. In the supply chain, in order to maintain the stability of the supply chain, the core enterprises will help SMEs to alleviate the funding difficulties. This article starts from the supply chain financing of SMEs, explores the specific ways that core enterprises can help SMEs in supply chain financing, and analyses the feasibility of financing methods. Through analysis and demonstration, it is found that core enterprises can help SMEs with supply chain financing through prepayments, help small and medium-sized suppliers solve the problem of insufficient environmental protection funds, and core enterprises can obtain benefits from it.

ПОСТВЕСТФАЛЬСКИЙ СУВЕРЕНИТЕТ В ПОСТГЛОБАЛЬНОМ МИРЕ

The issue of the major actors of the global political and economic development obviously became the central one in the on-going discourse over the perspective global architecture. One cannot disengage that issue from the problem of the nature of the national sovereignty in the perspective world. It is obvious that the desovereignization of the global processes, gradual stripping of the nation-states from the right for sovereignty as well as dismantlement of the state as the form of society organization are the features of the departed historical period. Despite preservation of a number of globalized systems the world returns to the model of a spatial world that ultimately provides for right of the actor for sovereignty. That transformation is stimulated by the trend for geo-economic regionalization that at this point included the military political instruments of competition. That however does not mean that sovereignty as a phenomenon, notion as well as a political practice could be further interpreted within the framework of Westphalian system. Nation states that obviously remain vehicles for national sovereignty no longer enjoy ultimate monopoly exploiting sovereignty as an operational concept. The very notion of sovereignty due to the socio-economic as well as technological transformations of past decades becomes much more complex while merging spatial and trans-spatial components especially considering the fact that globalized segments of the international architecture will remain in place for the foreseeable future despite the geo-economic and geopolitical regionalization. Authors make the conclusion that the return to the «classic» purely spatial basis of the Westphalian system is no longer possible. While generalizing the trends that emerged during the initial phase of the on-going de-globalization try to formulate the major vectors of transformation of the operational substance of sovereignty and the specifics of its manifestation in specific political and geographical environments. The key element of the article is the attempt to outline the issues that are critical for further exploration and analysis of the transformation of the sovereignty. Authors claim that in contrast to current situation when the cornerstone of the sovereignty is the spatial security first of all in the military dimension the future world that would reside upon the principles of civilizational disengagement will demand a more robust approach to the issues of social and socio-cultural environment protection including those that could provide for the limitation of the level of intrusiveness of the globalized informational society into national informational environment.

Zeleni lanci snabdevanja i globalna konkurentnost kompanija

Companies are increasingly incorporating both social and environmental sustainability into their business activities. Ethical issues along with environmental and labor protection issues are integral components of the supply chain strategy. By implementing the concept of green supply chain, the level of sustainability, supply continuity and long-term business efficiency are improved. Positioning modern supply chains in the context of a green economy and a dynamic business environment is a matter of work. The key goal of this paper is to identify the business implications of the relationship between green supply chains, the environment and economic, social and environmental performance, based on the analysis for the field of research of relevant scientific sources, and to propose a model of "greening" of classic supply chains. of benefit to researchers and company managers. The research contribution of this paper is reflected in the achieved level of development and degree of implementation of sustainability practices in global supply chain management practices, overview of concepts, paradigms and research in the field of green supply chains over a period of twenty years, as well as in examining the impact of leading global supply chains on three main aspects of the environment-climate, water resources and forests. The paper is structured according to the IMRAD principle. The first part points out the different theoretical coverage of the concept of green supply chain. Then a green supply chain model is proposed. Analysis of the development perspective and discussion on the impacts of green chains on the environment is a key topic of the next part of the paper.

Council for Environmental Mutual Aid: Environmental Protection and CMEA Issues

The article deals with the initiatives of the CMEA member states in the field of environmental protection. The holding of the UN conference on the environment in Stockholm in 1972 actualized the environmental agenda both in the world and within the socialist camp. In parallel with the preparations for the UN conference in 1972, the journal “Problems of Peace and Socialism” held an international symposium “Marxism-Leninism and the Problems of Environmental Conservation”. This event was designed to develop a common point of view for communist parties on environmental protection. In 1976, an international meeting on environmental protection was held at the CMEA Secretariat. The meeting was organized by the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Scientific and Technical Cooperation of CMEA. The main issues of the meeting were related to the state policy on environmental protection and use of natural resources in the CMEA member countries. Thus it can be stated that in the CMEA countries, as well as all over the world, since the 1970s the attention to environmental issues began to grow. At the same time, environmental rhetoric was often in conflict with the current objectives of the economies of the CMEA countries. Although the official discourse was dominated by the idea of aspirations for the future, the leaders preferred to solve the problems of the current moment.

Path Deconstruction of Agricultural Environmental Sustainable Development Policy in the Process of International Agricultural Trade Liberalization.

Agriculture is particularly essential in the equilibrium between man and nature because of its intimate contact with nature. So the cornerstone for the sustainable development of the human economy and society is the sustainable development of agriculture. When it comes to global trade, agricultural trade has always been in a very special position. The basic situation of agriculture involves food safety, environmental protection, Chinese politics, and many other issues. In order to overcome the problems of overlapping, repetitive, and too many indicators in the evaluation method of agricultural environmental sustainable development and unfavorable for practical operation, this paper proposes an ecological footprint model based on emergy. The model can effectively evaluate the ability of sustainable development of agricultural environment and solve the problem that traditional evaluation methods cannot comprehensively evaluate. This makes agricultural development sustainable and is conducive to the liberalization of international agricultural trade. The experimental results of this paper show that from 2014 to 2018, the degree of damage to the agricultural environment has increased from 21% to 45%, which has led to a decline in the quality of agricultural products, and the output and sales are not as good as before. It can be seen that only by ensuring the sustainable development of the agricultural environment can we ensure the smooth progress of the international agricultural trade liberalization and make China's economy flourish.

Numerical Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer for Selected Geometric System

The contemporary problems and issues of environmental protection refer to a large extent to problems related – generally speaking – with energy. Currently, the production processes mainly concern the combustion of energy fuels, transport – over long distances – by means of transport, their use for utility purposes, e.g. engine drive or heating. All these processes have a significant negative impact on the environment and are magnified by their enormous intensity and enormous size. While the processes of energy production and transport have been studied for many years, and their result are widely published, the issues related to the application and operation of heating devices are little known and require much observation and research. The operating indicators of heating devices are generally characterized by low values (natural convection) and their artificial increase (intensity) cannot be used due to the acoustic effects and additional (significant) investment costs. The article presents some results of research on the intensification of heat flow – i.e. the thermal efficiency of flat heaters placed in a room with a specific temperature. Physical phenomena were investigated numerically by shaping the heat exchange space. The tested systems concerned a room with a free-standing heater, a heater with a vertical panel mounted in parallel, and a system with a curved bottom plate forming the so-called de Laval nozzle. Interesting results of air velocity and temperature fields as well as values of the heat transfer coefficient along the height of the heater were obtained. Based on the presented research, it can be concluded that the creation of convection surfaces around the heater is advisable because it affects the intensity of heat exchange, which can be increased without energy-intensive energy expenditure, i.e. in a non-mechanical way. Undoubtedly contributes positively to investment and operating costs, which is so important in issues related to environmental protection.

Ecological Protection Technology of Spraying Vegetation Concrete on Carbonaceous Rock Slope Experimental Research and Application

To solve the environmental protection issue of carbonaceous rock slope, the failure mechanism of carbonaceous rock slope and the protection mechanism of vegetation concrete are analyzed based on the engineering characteristics of carbonaceous rock and vegetation concrete. Therefore, the field test of vegetation concrete was carried out to obtain the optimal dosage of vegetation concrete greening additive. The application of environmental protection technology of vegetation concrete on carbonaceous rock slope is applied in slope engineering of Hebai highway, and the change law of soil fertility was analyzed to verify the effect of ecological protection. The results show that the protection mechanism of vegetation concrete slope protection technology is mainly categorized into two groups, namely, the surface sealing effect of vegetation concrete substrate in the early stage and the plant ecological protection effect in the later stage. The experiment results show that the optimum dosage of green additive for vegetation concrete is ranging from 30 kg/m3 to 40 kg/m3. According to the field application, within one year after the construction of vegetation concrete, the contents of available phosphorus, potassium, and organic matter increased by 70.2%, 24.9%, and 76.8%, respectively. Moreover, the content of alkali hydrolyzed nitrogen decreased by 44.8% and bulk density by 17.4%; the content of total phosphorus changed little. After 60 days of construction, the vegetation coverage rate of the slope can reach more than 95% and there is no obvious soil erosion phenomenon after three times of heavy rainfall.

Civil liability and environmental protection: Italian-French looks

With the growing awareness of environmental protection issues in contemporary societies and the increasing number and seriousness of environmental violations, civil liability emerged as one of the legal tools to be mobilized in particular in Italy and then in France and all Europe. The traditional Aquilian civil liability forged by Roman law has nevertheless had to be adapted to the specificity of the recent environmental issue. Especially through its traditional conditions of damage, of event giving rise to liability and of causal link. But also with regard to the functions of civil liability, even if the evolution of the latter makes it possible to accommodate more easily the protection of the environment with a dimension that is not only compensatory and remedial, but also punitive and preventive. However, paradoxically civil liability may appear today in several respects as a model to be more faithfully rediscovered for a more effective and coherent protection of the environment.

Artificial Neural Network-based Flexibility Assessment of the Electric Power System with High Wind Energy Penetration

One of the ways to resolve the environmental protection issue is to increase electricity production based on renewable energy sources (RES). High penetration of RES in an electric power system (EPS) induces great uncertainty in EPS operation. In this case, the normal and secure operation of EPS requires information on its flexibility. Algorithms for determining the EPS flexibility in real time are developed in the study. The acceptable time of obtaining the results is ensured by splitting the flexibility computing process into online and offline ones. Offline computation of operating state with minimum flexibility relies on an exact method. Online calculation of operating state with minimum flexibility employs trained artificial neural networks (ANNs). The two machine learning techniques (supervised and unsupervised) are explored and compared. These are the feedforward neural network and Kohonen neural network. In this study, the ANN architecture which fits in with solving the considered problem most is chosen. A new way of interpreting the ANN response is presented. To this end, another ANN is trained to recognize the operating state with minimum flexibility.

ECOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

Waste management has become a key issue in environment protection recently. The area is accompanied by various kinds of lobbying activities all around the world and it has the potential of directly affecting the everyday life of people and corporations. We analyse the factors that may influence social consciousness in the long run and what communication tools opinion leaders can use to reach out to the various social platforms. The objective of the research was to reveal hidden correlations in the field of waste management that influence societal awareness in Hungary and the relation between consumers and waste. We conducted the research by combining two methodologies, the REP-test (Role Construct Repertory) and the Storyline research methodology. Research has shown tension between the profession and the public sector, the main reason being the lack of communication and the different perception of the priorities of waste-related matters. The phenomenon of interests vs stakeholders also became a recurring element, according to which only those topics in the waste management profession are embraced where there are underlying interests present or there is money behind them.

Problems of financing sources for environmental protection in strategic documents of the European Union and Poland in the new financial perspective for 2021–2027

Motivation: Over the past two decades, the world, and Poland with it, has faced a huge challenge of transforming its economy towards climate neutrality. The observed effects of climate change, such as abrupt weather changes (prolonged droughts, sudden downpours), increase in average temperatures, environmental pollution, call for systemic and social actions. It should be clearly noted that the responsibility for actions aimed at environmental protection is borne not only by public administration (central and local government), but also by the private sector, as the one using and influencing the environment. The year 2020 brought an unexpected global health crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. MFF procedures developed up to that time were modified. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the preparation of legislation, programs, and rules for obtaining funds from them for project implementation. Many legislative works have been postponed, causing delays. The fact of the pandemic has led to the implementation of the Instrument for Reconstruction and Enhancing Resilience, which includes large-scale financial support for public investments and areas such as green and digital projects, in addition to the regular financial perspective. Support will be provided in the form of loans (EUR 360 billion) and grants (EUR 312.5 billion).
 Aim: The aim of the study is to compare the financial instruments covered by the European Union financial perspectives 2021–2027 with 2014–2020 in the context of environmental funding sources in Poland.
 Results: Both in the financial perspective 2014–2020 and the new one for 2021–2027, environmental protection issues are one of the main priorities. The continuity of previous structural funds has been preserved and supplemented with new instruments in response to the unprecedented socio-economic situation that has arisen as a result of the global health crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As a result of negotiations, EUR 76 billion will be made available to Poland under the EU’s cohesion policy and the Fund for Equitable Transformation, whereas in the previous one the amount was EUR 85.2 billion. The allocation of funds and the directions of spending will not only result from Poland’s development needs, but also (and perhaps above all) from the modified priorities of the Union as a response to the health situation of the EU community after the pandemic and the continuation of existing activities related to research, innovation, digitization, climate and the environment. The launch of individual programmes will allow ongoing analysis and evaluation of both the solutions adopted in strategic documents and their effects.

Sustainable High-Tech Brick Production with Energy-Oriented Consumption: An Integrated Possibilistic Approach Based on Criteria Interdependencies

Brick making contributes significantly to the of supply materials for the building industry. The majority of brick production sectors, especially in developing countries, employ polluting and energy-inefficient technologies. Due to the increasing pressures on manufacturing firms to improve economic performance and growing environmental protection issues, sustainable and clean production is the main concern for brick makers. This paper considers the technological, economic, environmental, social, and energy-oriented criteria to select the optimal brick production technologies. Therefore, technology selection is viewed as a multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problem. This research proposes a novel hybrid fuzzy MCGDM (HFMCGDM) model to tackle the problem. In this respect, first of all, the modified triangular fuzzy pair-wise comparison (MTFPC) method is proposed to compute the local weights of criteria and sub-criteria. Then, a fuzzy DEMATEL (FDEMATEL) method is presented to calculate the interdependencies between and within the criteria. Moreover, the integration of MTFPC and FDEMATEL methods is applied to calculate the global criteria weights. Afterward, a novel method is proposed to determine the experts’ weight. Considering the last aggregation approach to diminish data loss, a new version of a fuzzy TOPSIS method is proposed to find the local and global priorities of the candidates. Then, a case study is given to demonstrate the applicability and superiority of the proposed methodology. To get a deeper view about considering kilns, energy and environmental performance of which has been investigated. Moreover, a comparative analysis is presented to illuminate the merits of the proposed methodology. Eventually, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to peruse the influence of criteria weights on ranking order.

Economic and ecological aspects of granite mining in Zhytomyr region: problems and prospects

Formulation of the problem. Most of Ukraine is located on the so-called Ukrainian Shield, which is a geological block rise of the crystalline basement of the Eastern European platform, stretching within our country along the middle reaches of the Dnieper in a strip over 1000 km long and about 250 km wide from the Gorin River to the Sea of Azov. This geological massif consists almost entirely of metamorphic and igneous rocks, the bulk of which are deeply processed by ultrametamorphic processes, including granitization and selective anathexis, which caused the formation of local crustal magmas. In many places granites come to the surface. From the geological point of view, granite is an intrusive rock of acidic composition with a granular (even-grained or uneven-grained) structure. The exceptional strength of this stone material allows it to be used in various areas of the economy, including construction. In this area, granite is widely used in the construction of roads, houses, concrete, bridges and more. Due to the widespread use of stone in the manufacturing sector, there is a need for its extraction. Quarry mining of granite is carried out in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhia and other regions. At the same time, the extraction of granite by quarrying, as well as its further processing into marketable products, including crushed stone, has a negative impact on the environment. On the one hand, there is the problem of producing the necessary construction products to meet the needs of industry and domestic life of the country's inhabitants, and on the other - there is the issue of environmental protection. Analysis of recent research and publications. This issue is directly or indirectly considered in studies that in one way or another relate to environmental problems of the Zhytomyr region in general, as well as the impact of the mining industry in particular are considered and studies N. G. Zinovchuk, G. Ya. Studinskaya, V. A. Studinsky, V. K. Danilka, V. I. Karpova and others. It is worth noting that the problem of the impact of granite mining in the quarry method is considered by many researchers in conjunction with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. The purpose of this study is the identification of economic and environmental problems associated with the organization of granite mining in a quarry way, as well as the combination of this problem with other factors of negative impact on the environment. Materials and methods. The implementation of this study is based on the following principles: conceptuality, which allows to obtain integrated results; analytical, which allows for a comprehensive study of the issue and identify its individual components; debatability, which allows the admission of different views on this issue. Results of the research. The article attempts to consider the negative impact on the environment of granite mining and its processing into marketable products. The authors also tried to consider this problem comprehensively in combination with other negative environmental impacts. This touches on the improvement of technical and technological processes that reduce the negative impact on the environment. Conclusions. Quarrying of granite is undoubtedly a negative impact on the natural state, in particular on the quality of air, water and land resources. This negative impact is exacerbated by the fact that the Zhytomyr region was most negatively affected by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. However, the application of modern technologies in the system of quarry granite mining can significantly reduce the negative impact, in particular of crushed stone plants, on the environment of Zhytomyr region.

Innovative Financing Mechanism for Environmental Protection: Applying PES in a Watershed Area in Albania

This paper aims at the discussion of innovative environmental financing mechanism developed throughout the world and in Albania. The premise of the paper is the fact that government financing and international assistance are not sufficient anymore to address global environmental and biodiversity protection issues. Therefore, new mechanisms, based on the active involvement of the private sector, need to be developed and implemented. The paper focuses on one particular financial mechanism to argue upon the role of private sector: Payment for Ecosystem Services. Based on the “beneficiary pays” principle, upon which PES is conceived, the paper discusses a possible implementation of PES in one study area: Bovilla watershed. This case study analysis identifies the cost and benefits of the scheme in the study area and gives an overview of the design of the scheme. Other innovative instruments are discussed, giving some insights one their use in the Albanian context.
 
 Received: 25 October 2021 / Accepted: 30 November 2021 / Published: 9 December 2021

Execution by penitentiary institutions and bodies of the duty to preserve the environment

The environmental problems that have become aggravated over the past decades at the national and global levels determine the search for new approaches to the organization of safe life and sustainable development in Russia. The definition of national environmental interests is extremely important, both theoretical-methodological and practical importance for the activities of many departments of Russia, designed to ensure its safety in the field of ecology. In our opinion, this is especially important for the prevention and localization of external threats in the ecological sphere, which realize their interests in the global and regional ecological spaces, primarily in the field of nature management. This study examines the problematic issues of environmental protection, rational nature management and environmental safety. Attention is drawn to the fact that the effectiveness of ensuring the environmental safety of the country depends on the systematic work of many state bodies, including the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. In conclusion, the authors proposed the necessary measures for the implementation of environmental safety by institutions of the penal system.

Assessment of the impact of the technical condition of the cylinder-piston group parts on nitrogen oxide emissions

Nowadays, a lot is paid to environmental protection issues, including those related to reducing emissions from ships of the sea and river fleet, which is reflected in many works. Constant control over the content of harmful emissions in the environment forces us to deal with the issues of reducing emissions from diesel engines at the design stages and during operation. The solution to this problem allows us to consider 2 directions: constructional and the use of special equipment for capture and neutralization. In the best case, a combined method can be used, i.e. constructional with the use of capturing equipment for harmful components in diesel exhaust gases. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of various factors that reduce the load on the atmospheric air from nitrogen oxides of marine diesel engines, namely, from the operating settings of the diesel engine and its wear. On the ships of the river fleet, diesel engines are used with various mixture formation with volumetric, volumetric-film, vortex mixture formation. The leader in the listed group is the volumetric mixture engines. The paper provides an assessment of the research carried out to analyze various methods of influencing the working process of a diesel engine - the type of mixture formation, wear of the cylinder sleeve in order to determine their influence on the formation of NOx emissions.

The level of socio-economic development of regions in Poland

The development of regions within one country is an uneven process. States seek to reduce internal inequalities between particular regions through the implementation of appropriate economic policies, as is the case of Poland. The aim of the study is to evaluate the level of socio-economic development of regions in Poland (voivodships) in the years 2013– 2019. For this purpose, a taxonomic analysis based on Hellwig’s development measure was conducted and the Euclidean distance was applied to assess the difference between the obtained pattern and particular voivodships. On the basis of data provided by the Local Data Bank of Statistics Poland and through linear ordering, two rankings of voivodships were created: one reflecting their socio-economic development excluding environmental protection aspects and the other focusing solely on the issue of environmental protection. Low values of the coefficient of variation relating to a part of the analysed variables indicated that the development level of voivodships in the analysed period is in many respects very similar. The variables crucial for determining the differences between voivodships show that Mazowieckie Voivodship occupies high positions in both rankings (and is the leader in the ranking of socio-economic development excluding environmental protection aspects), while Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship is characterised by a low level of development illustrated by both rankings.

Research on simulation of nanosecond pulsed laser processing for TC4 titanium alloy: A novel model simplification and correction method

With the increasingly prominent issues of energy shortages and environmental protection, the research on spacecraft drag reduction has attracted widespread attention from industrialists. Surface microgrooves can effectively reduce the friction of spacecraft walls, which can be manufactured by a nanosecond laser. However, the machining process of nanosecond laser is affected by the coupling of multiple process parameters, and the processing morphology is difficult to recognize, restricting the high-precision processing of microgrooves. Therefore, accurate identification of nanosecond laser processing morphology is a prerequisite for ensuring the drag reduction performance of spacecraft. In this study, TC4 titanium alloy that is the aviation material is used as the research object, and the finite element model (FE model) for nanosecond laser processing is established. In this model, the nanosecond laser obeys the Gaussian distribution in time and space. In addition, thermal conduction, thermal convection, and thermal radiation are considered in the model. The rapid phase change of the material during laser processing is realized by using a significant convection coefficient, and finally processing profile is simulated by the deformation geometry technology. To improve the calculation efficiency of the FE model, the pulsed laser is equivalently processed, which significantly improves the computational efficiency. The prediction accuracy of the processing profile is improved, where the FE model is revised based on the experimental data. The relative error between the simulated depth and the machining depth is less than 9%. More importantly, the simulated morphology is in good agreement with the experimental data. The validity and reliability of the FE model are verified, which can guide nanosecond laser processing of microgrooves. Further, the proposed pulsed laser equivalent method and the model correction method will promote the three-dimensional simulation process of ultrafast lasers.

Eutrophication trend analysis and forewarning model construction of water source reservoirs: Gaozhou Reservoir, China

AbstractThe eutrophication of water in reservoirs and lakes is worsening year after year and has become a prominent issue of environmental water protection. In order to understand the degree of eutrophication and the changing trend of important drinking water sources in the coastal areas of Western Guangdong, ensuring the safety of drinking water, this paper takes Gaozhou Reservoir as the research object. According to the long‐term monitoring results of eutrophication index of reservoirs from 2012 to 2019, spatial and temporal analysis of each evaluation indicator and the comprehensive nutrient status of the reservoir was conducted using the integrated nutrient status index method. Based on the Weber–Fechner (W‐F) law, an early warning model for reservoir eutrophication and grading evaluation was established. The results showed that Gaozhou Reservoir was in mesotrophic state, and the eutrophication was more serious in the high water period than in the low water period. TLI (TN) was the largest contributor to eutrophication of the reservoir, and all nutritional status indexes show mild eutrophication. Chl‐a, phosphorus nutrients and organic matter had little effect on the degree of eutrophication. The fluctuation of the eutrophication status at each monitoring section of the reservoir was relatively stable. The TLI(Σ) of Liangde Dam was lower than that of the Shigu Reservoir, and the comprehensive nutritional status of the Shigu area in the decreasing order was tail > supply port > centre. According to the established early warning model, the eutrophication status in different seasons from 2012 to 2019 was evaluated. The results indicated that the comprehensive influence index value of the dry period was less than that of the flood period due to the influence of seasonal factors. In addition, the model has a good warning effect; it provides theoretical support and prevention and control methods for ecological environmental protection of reservoirs.

Immissions profiling using AI

Industrial activity and not only, generates both emissions and immissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. Thus, their magnitude and dynamics will present a specific footprint for each pollutant. The article aims to identify immission profiles using tools specific to artificial intelligence applied to a wide set of recordings of environmental parameters. The first part briefly presents the issue of environmental protection and specific regulations at national and European level, and the second part showcases the database of environmental parameters and the theoretical model of data processing. The last part of the paper is dedicated to results obtained and their analysis which shows the presence of emissions patterns (profiles) measured in different locations and time periods. Seasonality and its impact on emission profiles were also analysed. On this occasion, the use of the Hurst exponent allowed the segregation of various time series of data based on the resulting memory interpreted as a measure of immissions’ persistence. Jumps in the temporal dimension of values allowed the anonymous association of immissions with different locations. Analysis of the topology of clusters associated with immission profiles highlighted the presence of two types: rare clusters and dense clusters. Rare clusters can be associated with immission having accidental dynamics and dense clusters can be associated with systematic immissions. Use of the framed method allows for a classification of pollutants resulting in increased chances of solving the environmental impact.