ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF MODERN STATES IN THE FACE OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND THREATS

Abstract

The purpose of the research. In the article offers consideration of the problem of violation of the natural balance of life of the Earth’s noosphere and the resulting increase in global environmental challenges facing the public administration systems of national states and the international community.
Methodology. The methodological tools of the survey are case studies of the Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of March 23, 2021”. On challenges and threats to national security of Ukraine in the environmental sphere and priority measures to neutralize them».
Scientific novelty. It is substantiated that the Earth’s noosphere at the beginning of the third millennium is under pressure from a significant number of global challenges and threats, which are increasingly coming to the forefront of national security of modern states and environmental security of all mankind. The state of implementation of measures to counteract threats to environmental security in Ukraine was analyzed, which showed that only a small part of the priority measures provided by the presidential decree to ensure environmental security and maintain ecological balance in Ukraine was timely implemented in full.
Conclusions. It is concluded that concern for the preservation of the natural environment of our life is increasingly coming to the forefront of the problems of the development of human civilization and, ultimately, its very existence. And one of the main activities of all national governments should be a new state environmental policy, functionally designed to ensure the achievement of a constitutionally guaranteed level of environmental safety and the safety of human and social life through the formation of the necessary political, economic, and social conditions, as well as through active counteraction to global environmental threats.