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Environmental Industrial Policy (EIP) as an integral part of the industrial policy aimed at the resource efficiency enhancement at two levels – the level of industrial installation and the regional level. The article shows the correlation between Sustainable Development Goals, Environmental Industrial Policy and Circular Economy goals. Authors focus their analysis on the construction materials industry as one of the resource intensive sectors regulated both by the legislation based on Best Available Techniques (BA...

Chemical and construction materials industries are the resource intensive sectors regulated by both the legislation based on Best Available Techniques (BAT) and carbon-related legislation. In Russia, BAT concept regarded as an instrument for the industrial resource efficiency enhancement. Environmental Performance Indicators are included in BAT Reference Documents (BREFs) forming a basis for the assessment of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. To optimise two interrelated regulatory systems (BAT and GHG), BATs prov...

Requirements for performing environmental self-monitoring (ESM) of various installations are set in the Russian legislation. However, large industrial plants often need to develop and run Industrial Environmental Monitoring (IEM) Programmes not at source but within the zone of influence, which in Russia is defined as the area at the boundaries of which concentrations of contaminants emitted by the pollution source reach 5 % of respective maximum allowable concentrations (ambient air quality standards). IEMP object...