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Miron Tugushi
SOME ISSUES OF «GREEN MANAGEMENT» IN GEORGIA

Summary 

«Green Management» is a management activity which aims to improve the basis of environmental (ecological)  management, development of staff responsible for environmental activities, environmental management systems and communications and biodiversity maintaining. Due to the   fact that   realization of the events  being planned by the  "Green Economy" sectors is unimaginable  without "Green Management".In  the developed countries  particular attention is payed to it.

World practice certifies, that  legislative and executive bodies, as well as judicial power, business, mass media, population and other  sectors of the country   should  perform   organaizng role  in implementation of  Green Economy and Green Management events in order  to mitigate and eradicate negative impacts on the environment.

Governments of  Georgia and its  Autonomous Republic, mayors and municipalities recognize the importance of thie above mentioned  problem and try to implement environmental measures in  timely manner by using their competence, financial resources and staff units.

     In recent years, in the state  budgets of Georgia,  the Autonomous Republic and all the Territorial Units have been considered many environmental measures for our country, the source of financing of the above-mentioned budgets together with their own incomes include the international financial institutions and foreign governments long term investment financing for the Georgian government by  preferential credits and grants. For instance, in the State budget of 2019, which includes data from the budgets of 2017 and 2018 as well, there are a number of programs or individual activities aimed at mitigating negative  impacts on environment and in some cases  their eradicating.

     During last  years, environmental improvements in Georgia have been improved to some extent. Along with other measures It was facilitated  by implementation of a number of realized measures and events  envisaged by the Association Agreement with the European Union. Nevertheless, the level of development of "Green Economy" and "Green Management" in our country is not still good. Though it should be said, that last year, realization of the environmental policies referred to by the Prime Minister as the first task of the country, which also includes  development of the "Green Economy", has the prospects of substantially improving the situation created in this field.

     The Government of Georgia, as well as the management of Green Economy, or Green Management, as in a high level of governing ( government of the country), as well as the medium (autonomous republic government) or the lowest (municipalities) organizational structures do not need to create substantial changes and new jobs in this direction. As  it is shown from the provisions of the the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Ministry of Agriculture, there  already exists an organizational structure, which is  necessary for efficient management of environmental activity.

It could be said, that  the Legal framework of  the law for environmental activity in Georgia is already  created, but if necessary it is not a problem to improve some of the provisions (for example, the draft Law on Environmental Responsibility» is now in the process of  review  in the Parliament of Georgia).

It has been already started and  currently successfully  is going on  harmonization of the existed Law   with the European norms .  Though, the concrete steps should be taken in the following years in order to improve air, soil and water pollution prevention, waste management, biodiversity, ecosystems and from the point of view of  sustainable management of all natural resources.  It should be mentioned here, that  in Georgia  still there is an acute problem of  finansial resources required for realization of environmental measures and in some cases the problem of personnel with relevant qualifications.

In Georgia should  be created  such an entrepreneurial environment that will enable medium and small businesses to play  much more important role in  implementation of overall product and environmental strategy.

Taking into consideration that  realization of the environmental programs - projects require large amounts of money (and that the potential resources of Georgia are not so big), seeking for  foreign donors is still important. In this direction, we should more and more activate our work with friendly states, international financial organizations and investors. The Association Agreement with the European Union will still significantly support  our country  in finding financial resources.

Conclusion: the  interest of the government of georgia  (as in the center and in the regions) towards  ,, Green Economy "and ,, Green Management"  is constantly growing. Increasing  social responsibility of the business and activating activities to the environmental direction, creating more and more people's interest in resolving these problems create possibility of gradual overcoming  the environmental problems, which will hopefully be used. 

Key words: ,,Green Management“, ,,Green Economics“, Environmental impacts, measures environment protection, social responsibility of business.