Regional environmental governance: trends and key challenges

Abstract

The environmental component of economic development is based on the concept of sustainable development, which is reflected in the guidelines of global "green growth". In recent decades, the attention of scientists, politicians and representatives of various institutions has increasingly focused on the transboundary level of the environmental crisis, mainly due to global warming and biodiversity loss. Environmental policy and economic levers of its justification are enshrined in relevant documents expressing the policy of states and individual regions to ensure environmental protection, in particular in the documents: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2015), A European Green Deal (2020) and others. At the same time, regional initiatives are important structural elements for planning and implementing effective programs and projects.