Governmental Investment in the Environmental Economy in the Western Balkan

Abstract

“A Green economy” has been one of the key agendas that governments all over the world have set as a goal to achieve. The last few decades have been critical for the recognition of this major problem, and they played a critical part in reversing the effects brought on to our planet with the acts of people and other natural factors. Governments have devised multiple plans to enforce regulations that would protect the environment we live in, and most of these plans have been spearheaded by the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU). They have developed several plans that have a task to minimalize, or escalate, the effects of global warming until 2050. Covered by these plans are almost all of the World’s countries, and a majority of these actions are connected with the economy and sustainable development. The Western Balkan region has recently started implementing Eco laws and trying to make the environment more energy efficient. The WB countries have also undergone serious economic improvement in the environmental field. This paper analyses the progress of the Western Balkan countries, its onset and implementation, as well as plans for future economic investment. The countries that will be analyzed are Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. The analyses in the paper include the presentation of legal regulations and the economic perspectives of the plans that need to be implemented in these countries, as well as their investment potential concerning the green economy. Since all of these countries tend to become members of the EU in the future, these results would be compared with the average measures performed by the EU countries. The paper hypothesizes that Western Balkan countries have lower average rates than EU countries, and would have to focus not only on making a more stable legal perspective concerning Eco laws, but also a more environmentally stable economy.

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