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The present paper tries to investigate the impact of the decrease of local governments' budgets on the local government environmental investment policies. The significant adverse variances between budgeted and actual amounts point to the fact that environmental protection is not yet a high priority issue in the local government management policies. The analysis of the structure of planned and actual investments by purpose, and their realization index show that local governments allocate the largest amount of expenditures in waste management. Moreover, a high index of realization of these expenditures additionally indicates that waste management has the highest priority within the environmental function in both years, what could be explained by regulated and stable financing of this function by earmarked funds. The results are instructive for local governments and may encourage them to increase the share of earmarked funds for financing environmental protection. The analysis of environmental protection investment policies of local governments in this paper is based on comparison of the series of indices calculated as the relation between actual and budgeted amounts of total, environmental and components of environmental expenditures, as well as of total and environmental income of local governments.

The practice has indicated that there is a particularly sensitive relationship that exists between ecological and economic subsystem of sustainable development. Therefore this research suggests to compare the states of these two subsystems as a new conceptual frame which is essential for strategic conceptualization of development of countries, by the use of weight (importance) coefficients method. The research pointed out at a rather visible gap between the achieved degree of economic and ecological development in the countries of South Eastern Europe in respect to Germany and France – which were taken into consideration as two of the most developed countries in the European Union and in the entire world. The usage of statistic method of weight (importance) coefficients requires assigning a certain degree (of individual value) to each and every indicator. In order to have a better overview and to get more precise results the weight coefficients in range from 0 to 100 were used. The results obtained by using the scale with lower values showed less qualitative final outcome. Used statistical technique for indicated research has shown excellent results and requires additional improvements.

The main objectives of the manuscript are the monitoring and measurement of economic and social development, as well as assessment of renewable energy development in EU countries from the perspective of sustainable development. EU STRATEGY 2020 has basic objectives related to energy development, which implies significant changes in overall development. Energy exploitation represents significant factor of economic, environmental and social development in separate countries, as in EU as a whole. The article will present sample methodology for energy strategy assessment, through analysis of basic economic, social and environmental indicators in EU27 countries. This research includes inter alia analysis of energy production in the EU27 countries, energy import dependency, quantity of pollution as result of energy production and consumption, and human development index (HDI). The countries with the greatest values of Total GDP (eg. Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy) are positioned in the first ten countries in the total emission of CO2, SOx and NOx. The leading countries in the values of GDP per capita (eg. Luxemburg, Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands) have the middle values of pollution as result of energy production and consumption, except Luxemburg which is at the leading place. The relation between energy export and energy import in EU27 region reflects energy dependency in EU27 region and represents essential energy related problem. The country with the best export-import ratio is Denmark.

Ovaj rad razmatra specifičnosti energetske politike u Srbiji na primeru analize projekta elektrane na biogas. Elektrana na biogas projektovana je u skladu s postojećom energetskom politikom koja obezbeđuje privilegovan status proizvođačima energije iz obnovljivih izvora i garantuje im kupovinu proizvedene energije po subvencionisanim cenama. U ovom radu je izložena analiza potrošnje energije, koja je poslužila kao osnova za kreiranje nove korporativne energetske politike. U radu su predstavljene analize output-a (električne i toplotne energije) energetskog postrojenja na biogas i analize potencijalnih cena na tržištu, u skladu s podsticajima energetske politike Srbije. Osim toga, poseban akcenat je stavljen na prihode koje ostvaruje elektrana na biogas pomoću mehanizma energetske politike, koji obezbeđuje prihode na račun smanjenja zagađenja atmosfere. Takođe su prikazane procedure, troškovi i očekivani efekti za kvalifikaciju ovog projekta (CDM kategorije).