Subject The current practice of environmental management still rests on isolated development of environmental protection programs in different industrial sectors and individual territories. Therefore, there is a need for a national policy in the area of environment development. Objectives The aim is to analyze the current State environmental protection policy, identify 'bottlenecks', and make proposals for its improvement. Results The analysis of the State environmental protection policy shows the main problems of its formation and implementation: lack of consistency and comprehensive approach; dominating administrative methods in environmental safety management and their inefficiency; negligible share of environmental investments in the overall investments in the economy, which is steadily declining; poor use of market instruments to promote environment protection measures and the lack of mechanisms for their development in the legislation. Conclusions We propose basic areas for solving the existing problems in formation and implementation of the Russian State environmental protection policy. They include integration of the Concept for long-term economic development of the Russian Federation till 2020 and statutory documents on environmental protection; development of market instruments to stimulate investment in environmental facilities; use of public-private partnerships to attract investments in environmental projects in Russian regions, primarily, in solid-waste recycling, construction of water treatment plants and renewable energy sources.
Keywords: public policy, environment protection, tool, government regulation, investments
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