The European Green Deal: A Roadmap for Sustainable Nature Management in a Decentralized Environment

Abstract

The article aims at studying the results of and prospects for the further implementation of the European Green Deal, a roadmap for sustainable nature management. The research results prove the expediency of implementing the European Green Deal aimed at providing balanced nature management amidst decentralization processes. Taking into consideration the content of the "European Green Deal" communiqu? provisions presented by the European Commission, the key areas for its implementation are presented. In particular, such areas are as follows: modernization and transformation of the economy in order to improve the climate; production of clean, affordable and safe energy; mobilization of industry towards a circular economy; intensification of the transiting to sustainable and intelligent mobility; development of a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system for the population. It is substantiated that the effective implementation of the Green Deal ideas requires national public authorities to form a holistic vision of the stages of its multilevel implementation, with respect to the economic, social and environmental peculiarities of modern Ukraine. Such an implementation requires an urgent and extensive public discussion of its key points. It has been proved that at the level of legislation and rule-making it is necessary to take a whole range of measures to update the current legal provisions concerning the environment, as well as to adopt a number of qualitatively new ones that would fully comply with the EU policy. In fact, a new paradigm for the development of the Ukrainian state and society in the coming years should center on the standardization and environmentalization of economic, political and legal institutional foundations of their functioning