Analysis of greening indicators at industrial enterprises of the Perm region

The article considers the essence of greening and analyzes the indicators characterizing the processes of green- ing at industrial enterprises of the Perm region. The dynamics of indicators reducing environmental performance of enterprises, such as pollutant emissions from extracting and processing enterprises, production and consumption wastes, use of electricity is studied. The indicators characterizing waste neutralization, utilization and disposal were chosen as those responsible for increasing environmental sustainability. A model of the dynamics of greening processes at manu- facturing enterprises of the Perm region, determining the vector for environmental sustainability development, is pro- posed. This model also allows us to distinguish groups of economic activities having similar problems in the sphere of environmental performance. The Pareto method was used to select the parameters that have the greatest influence on the processes of greening. The study was conducted basing on the data of extractive and manufacturing enterprises of the Perm region for the period from 2007 to 2012. The analysis reveals that greening processes do take place at industrial enterprises, but they develop very slowly. It also shows the important role of environmental indicators as a primary means of environmental assessment, environmental reporting, and environmental policy improvement. In connection with the ecological crisis in the Russian Federation, analysis of greening processes at different levels of the economy is important for modern management science. It is concluded that activity of industrial enterprises of the Perm region is characterized by certain positive trends in terms of environmental protection, however, greening processes are develop- ing very slowly.