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The article considers environmental innovations, defines their importance not only in terms of commercial effect, but also from the perspective of human values. Today environmental issues are the most acute. Pollution of the atmosphere, water resources, destruction of forests – all this speaks of the acute relevance of issues of conservation of natural resources, the irreparable loss of which may threaten the very existence of human civilization. Undoubtedly, everything new that science offers to solve this most important problem requires large financial resources, which are needed for the development of innovative products, their testing and large-scale implementation. Commercialization of investment goals is quite justified from the position of investors' interests, who determine the financial results of any realized projects as a priority. At the same time it should not be forgotten that today mankind, having embarked on the technocratic path of development and making technological breakthroughs in various production sectors, may face an insoluble problem of lack of clean air and potable water. This point of no return can be passed at any moment. To prevent such a development, the authors propose a methodology for evaluating innovations in the field of ecology in order to reorient the purely commercial investment interests on environmental issues, without prejudice to the financial aspects of the implementation of environmental projects. The work considers the methodology that will allow the investor to determine a more acceptable direction of investment, while respecting their financial interests. Eco-innovations are evaluated in terms of environmental, financial and social effects. The paper assesses their compliance with various criteria. For the analysis of factor weights, the method of hierarchy analysis was used, which in the conditions of this statement of the problem allows to determine the degree of importance of each type of environmental innovation from the position of the maximum cumulative effect. The method makes it possible to rank the priority of both individual types of environmental innovations and the criteria for their assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
