The state of natural-technogenic and environmental safety of Kyiv is
extremely complicated. The natural component of the hazard is caused,
primarily, by the complex relief. Thus, among natural threats and risks are
landslide processes, flooding, complex meteorological phenomena, etc. The
relatively small territory of the city is oversaturated with complex
engineering structures and production (radiation, chemical, hydrodynamic,
explosion fire hazard) and has one of the highest population density. At the
risk of emergency situation (ES) there will be a few million people in the
affected area. According to the State Service of Emergencies of Ukraine,
during 2014 the death toll as a result of emergencies accounted for 3 people
and 33 people suffered. In 2013 there were 7 ES, the number of sufferers
and dead were 95 and 3 people, respectively

Illiashenko, I.

Obikhod, A.

Omelchenko, A.

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Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine 
Sumy State University 
Oleh Balatsky Academic and Scientific Institute of Finance, 
Economics and Management 
 
22nd International Scientific Conference 
"Economics for Ecology" 
ISCS'2016 
 
Економіка для екології 
 
Матеріали 
XXII Міжнародної наукової конференції 
 
(Україна, Суми, 11–12 травня 2016 року) 
 
 
 
 
Суми  
Сумський державний університет 
2016      
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KYIV ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY FINANCING: 
PROBLEMS AND WAYS OF THEIR OVERCOMING 
 
Anna Obikhod, Аlla Omelchenko 
Public Institution «Institute for Environmental Management 
and Sustainable Development of the National Academy of 
Sciences of Ukraine», Kyiv, Ukraine 
Inna Illiashenko 
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 
 
The state of natural-technogenic and environmental safety of Kyiv is 
extremely complicated. The natural component of the hazard is caused, 
primarily, by the complex relief. Thus, among natural threats and risks are 
landslide processes, flooding, complex meteorological phenomena, etc. The 
relatively small territory of the city is oversaturated with complex 
engineering structures and production (radiation, chemical, hydrodynamic, 
explosion fire hazard) and has one of the highest population density. At the 
risk of emergency situation (ES) there will be a few million people in the 
affected area. According to the State Service of Emergencies of Ukraine, 
during 2014 the death toll as a result of emergencies accounted for 3 people 
and 33 people suffered. In 2013 there were 7 ES, the number of sufferers 
and dead were 95 and 3 people, respectively.  
The volume of material losses was significant; moreover, funds were 
attracted to overcome consequences of emergencies. The implementation of 
preventive measures in supporting natural-technogenic and environmental 
safety of Kyiv is funded mainly within the framework of the state and 
region target programs of civil protection. However, during 2014 funds for 
these measures were not allocated. In addition, capital investment and 
operating costs for the protection and rational use of natural resources for 
Kyiv were unstable and ranged from 223 million (2014) to 1.374 billion 
USD (2013), and the share of government expenditures of these amounts 
was about 10%. 
Today, due to the accumulated problems of organizational and 
systemic chronic underfunding of prevention measures of pollution, regions 
and cities have actually lost the leverage to limit the environmental threats 
and risks. At the same time, active work on approximation of the 
environmental legislation in compliance with EU Directives on 
Environmental Protection requires search for new, alternative forms and 
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instruments to obtain funds for prevention of security measures. Along with 
the “horizontal” directives, an important instrument for regulating relations 
in the field of prevention of pollution within Europe is the Cohesion Fund, 
the costs of which can be distributed among countries whose GDP is below 
90% of the average EU GDP. The countries preparing to join the EU get 
assistance through the fund "Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-
Accession» (ISPA) to finance environmental and transport projects.  
According to the statute of the Cohesion Fund, 63.4 billion euros is 
allocated for investing projects in a number of categories, including: 
support of the development of low carbon projects; promotion of climate 
change adaptation, risk prevention and management, including investment 
projects to address specific risks, ensuring stability, as well as development 
of disaster emergency management systems; environmental conservation 
and protection and increase in efficiency of use of resources by promoting 
sustainable operation of transport and elimination of deficiencies in key 
network infrastructures. 
Using investment grants, subsidies, tax incentives and compensations 
as main mechanisms, for the period 2007-2014 the Cohesion Fund money 
supported 20 programs in 14 European countries. Most of them were co-
financed (including ERDF), and related TEN-T optimization or 
development and infrastructure in the country with observance of 
requirements of environmental protection. The effectiveness and success of 
the development fund is measured by a set of taken indicators, among 
which are indicators of the environmental state, development of 
recoverable energy and climate change, the state of the transport network. 
For the period 2014-2020 the Cohesion Fund aims to promote development 
and optimization of the environment in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech 
Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, 
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Unfortunately, Ukraine today 
does not have a legal possibility to fully use the money to fund projects of 
risk prevention and overcoming threats to the population and territory of 
the border regions, even under condition of common-funded cross-border 
programs with one of the EU countries. The issues of this direction of 
cross-border cooperation are revealed in of Ye. Matviishyn’s works, where 
the author analyzes the causes of poor activeness of border regions 
communities in projects preventing environmental pollution or overcome 
its consequences. 
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Any economic activity and especially the one that is on the densely 
populated areas can cause appearance and distribution of ecological and 
natural-technogenic threats and dangers. Therefore, special attention in the 
implementation of hazardous economic activity for Kyiv should be paid to 
observance of a number of principles, including: prevention, due diligence, 
compliance with international environmental laws and so on. Today 
enterprises of large cities is a potential source of contamination for the 
territories of Ukraine and neighboring countries as a result of a number of 
economic, technical, technological, organizational and other reasons. Our 
own funds and reserves for prevention are unfortunately not enough (it is 
confirmed by underfunding the leading state target programs to prevent 
risks and dangers of emergencies).  
The EU structural funds have an organizational and economic 
potential (which is not yet available for Ukraine) in solving the above 
problems and especially, the Cohesion Fund that provides investments for 
overcoming territorial disparities, including the environmental field through 
the whole system of mechanisms. Given the intensification of the 
interaction policy “Ukraine-EU”, a priority in the future should be both 
state support of strategies for regional and urban development taking into 
account ecological component (including Kyiv) and extension of powers of 
local authorities to identify and finance joint international environmental 
projects with the active involvement of local authorities in the development 
and implementation of policy documents in the field of environmental 
protection. 
 
 
FEED-IN TARIFF LIKE AN INCENTIVE INSTRUMENT 
TO ENLARGE RENEWABLE ENERGY USING BY 
HOUSEHOLDS 
 
Tetyana Pimonenko, Olexii Lyulyov, Yana Us 
Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine  
 
The ongoing economic situation in Ukraine, the energy dependence 
from Russia, the prices increasing for the energy resources and as the 
consequences the snowballing increasing forthe household’sutilities bills 
are actualized the developing of renewable energy. Moreover, the experts 
declared that the fossil fuels age hadalready died. That is why it is 


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 1   Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Sumy State University Oleh Balatsky Academic and Scientific Institute of Finance, Economics and Management  22nd International Scientific Conference "Economics for Ecology" ISCS'2016  Економіка для екології  Матеріали XXII Міжнародної наукової конференції  (Україна, Суми, 11–12 травня 2016 року)     Суми  Сумський державний університет 2016       76  KYIV ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY FINANCING: PROBLEMS AND WAYS OF THEIR OVERCOMING  Anna Obikhod, Аlla Omelchenko Public Institution «Institute for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine», Kyiv, Ukraine Inna Illiashenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine  The state of natural-technogenic and environmental safety of Kyiv is extremely complicated. The natural component of the hazard is caused, primarily, by the complex relief. Thus, among natural threats and risks are landslide processes, flooding, complex meteorological phenomena, etc. The relatively small territory of the city is oversaturated with complex engineering structures and production (radiation, chemical, hydrodynamic, explosion fire hazard) and has one of the highest population density. At the risk of emergency situation (ES) there will be a few million people in the affected area. According to the State Service of Emergencies of Ukraine, during 2014 the death toll as a result of emergencies accounted for 3 people and 33 people suffered. In 2013 there were 7 ES, the number of sufferers and dead were 95 and 3 people, respectively.  The volume of material losses was significant; moreover, funds were attracted to overcome consequences of emergencies. The implementation of preventive measures in supporting natural-technogenic and environmental safety of Kyiv is funded mainly within the framework of the state and region target programs of civil protection. However, during 2014 funds for these measures were not allocated. In addition, capital investment and operating costs for the protection and rational use of natural resources for Kyiv were unstable and ranged from 223 million (2014) to 1.374 billion USD (2013), and the share of government expenditures of these amounts was about 10%. Today, due to the accumulated problems of organizational and systemic chronic underfunding of prevention measures of pollution, regions and cities have actually lost the leverage to limit the environmental threats and risks. At the same time, active work on approximation of the environmental legislation in compliance with EU Directives on Environmental Protection requires search for new, alternative forms and  77  instruments to obtain funds for prevention of security measures. Along with the “horizontal” directives, an important instrument for regulating relations in the field of prevention of pollution within Europe is the Cohesion Fund, the costs of which can be distributed among countries whose GDP is below 90% of the average EU GDP. The countries preparing to join the EU get assistance through the fund "Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession» (ISPA) to finance environmental and transport projects.  According to the statute of the Cohesion Fund, 63.4 billion euros is allocated for investing projects in a number of categories, including: support of the development of low carbon projects; promotion of climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management, including investment projects to address specific risks, ensuring stability, as well as development of disaster emergency management systems; environmental conservation and protection and increase in efficiency of use of resources by promoting sustainable operation of transport and elimination of deficiencies in key network infrastructures. Using investment grants, subsidies, tax incentives and compensations as main mechanisms, for the period 2007-2014 the Cohesion Fund money supported 20 programs in 14 European countries. Most of them were co-financed (including ERDF), and related TEN-T optimization or development and infrastructure in the country with observance of requirements of environmental protection. The effectiveness and success of the development fund is measured by a set of taken indicators, among which are indicators of the environmental state, development of recoverable energy and climate change, the state of the transport network. For the period 2014-2020 the Cohesion Fund aims to promote development and optimization of the environment in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Unfortunately, Ukraine today does not have a legal possibility to fully use the money to fund projects of risk prevention and overcoming threats to the population and territory of the border regions, even under condition of common-funded cross-border programs with one of the EU countries. The issues of this direction of cross-border cooperation are revealed in of Ye. Matviishyn’s works, where the author analyzes the causes of poor activeness of border regions communities in projects preventing environmental pollution or overcome its consequences.  78  Any economic activity and especially the one that is on the densely populated areas can cause appearance and distribution of ecological and natural-technogenic threats and dangers. Therefore, special attention in the implementation of hazardous economic activity for Kyiv should be paid to observance of a number of principles, including: prevention, due diligence, compliance with international environmental laws and so on. Today enterprises of large cities is a potential source of contamination for the territories of Ukraine and neighboring countries as a result of a number of economic, technical, technological, organizational and other reasons. Our own funds and reserves for prevention are unfortunately not enough (it is confirmed by underfunding the leading state target programs to prevent risks and dangers of emergencies).  The EU structural funds have an organizational and economic potential (which is not yet available for Ukraine) in solving the above problems and especially, the Cohesion Fund that provides investments for overcoming territorial disparities, including the environmental field through the whole system of mechanisms. Given the intensification of the interaction policy “Ukraine-EU”, a priority in the future should be both state support of strategies for regional and urban development taking into account ecological component (including Kyiv) and extension of powers of local authorities to identify and finance joint international environmental projects with the active involvement of local authorities in the development and implementation of policy documents in the field of environmental protection.   FEED-IN TARIFF LIKE AN INCENTIVE INSTRUMENT TO ENLARGE RENEWABLE ENERGY USING BY HOUSEHOLDS  Tetyana Pimonenko, Olexii Lyulyov, Yana Us Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine   The ongoing economic situation in Ukraine, the energy dependence from Russia, the prices increasing for the energy resources and as the consequences the snowballing increasing forthe household’sutilities bills are actualized the developing of renewable energy. Moreover, the experts declared that the fossil fuels age hadalready died. That is why it is 

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