Legal regulation of environmental protection and climate change mitigation to ensure sustainable economic development

Abstract

In view of the globalisation of sustainable development and environmental protection, the optimization of the legal regulation mechanism in the field of environmental protection, based on the principles of public administration and the priority of greening all spheres of life, is an urgent issue nowadays. The purpose of the academic paper is to analyse the issues of legal regulation of Ukraine’s “green” course development, to highlight the major trends and to identify promising areas for optimizing legal regulation in the area under study. It has been proven that the conceptual fundamentals of the administrative and legal mechanism for achieving the goals of sustainable environmental development are positioned in the functionality of elaboration and practical implementation of regulations on environmental issues on the basis of publicity of publicity and transparency, accompanied by the intensification of digitalization processes. The practical role of the research results is seen in the possibility of their use as recommendations for optimizing the legal support of Ukraine’s environmental policy in terms of adaptation of Ukraine’s national legislation to the European Green Deal.