Environmental sustainability in enterprise activity

Abstract

Enterprises aiming for sustainable development must combine economic interests with environmental needs and take all possible measures to protect the environment. It has been recently observed that environmental measures are cost-effective, as they allow to reduce the raw materials consumption and increase energy efficiency. The purpose of this article is to analyse the content of environmental component of sustainable development in scientific reseach and identify composition of this component based on real enterprises experiance. Created model will be useful for enterprises to evaluate environmental sustainability. Research was carried out using analysis of scientific literature and synthesis of various approaches.