Consumer packaging as a tool for social and ethical marketing

Environmental responsibility mechanism in the public sector of the economy has an important sense in UN Sustainability Development Goals achievement, as well as in ensuring the competitiveness of the state-owned companies and the state as a whole. Sustainability concept, concept of “smart cities and smart communities” and the implementation of public administration reform, the necessity to increase the transparency of state-owned companies and the responsibility of municipalities to communities determine the reasonability and urgency in environmental responsibility mechanism development. Systematization and comparative analysis of world and national experience of environmental responsibility mechanism development in the public sector of the economy were made. The author’s approach to the structuring of the mechanism of environmental responsibility in the public sector was developed. Public policy peculiarities implementation in the field of environmental responsibility were investigated considering the levels of regulation of such liability: in state-owned companies as models for other sectors of the economy; in public authorities and municipalities.

The close relationship between industrial development and environmental pollution is considered the main problem of negative climate changes and the deterioration of life quality leading to an increase in mortality. In this regard, the protection of environmental human rights is of great importance. The paper aims to assess the trends of industrial influence on the human environment and the level of protection of environmental human rights in different countries through reviewing and analysis of the set of relevant studies. The paper brings novelty exploring an array of objectives for protecting human environmental rights in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, implementation of a circular and resource-efficient economy, together with the Industry 4.0 technologies for industrialized countries, including Ukraine. Most studies consider contradictions between the economic and environmental goals of both businesses and the state the main obstacle for the ecologization of industrial production. The economic feasibility of introducing more resource-efficient business models has been proved. The impact of Ukrainian industrial companies on the environment and the state of human environmental rights protection is studied. The results of the study allow stating that the resource and energy inefficiency of industrial technology in the country, as well as the weakness of state institutions in the implementation of reforms for sustainable development, is a fundamental threat to human rights and a healthy life.

This study aims to analyze the influence of environmental awareness, information technology (IT) use, and access to credit as moderators on the sustainability of Indonesia’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Data were obtained through a survey of 1,374 MSMEs. Sampling was carried out using purposive sampling techniques, targeting MSMEs that had been established for more than 3 years and had received loans from financial institutions. The analysis used the ordinary least square (OLS) regression method to evaluate the relationship between the independent variables and MSME sustainability. The results show that environmental awareness and IT use significantly positively affect MSME sustainability. Credit access was also found to have a significant and positive effect. However, the interaction between credit access, environmental awareness, and IT use resulted in a small but significantly negative effect. This suggests that an excessive increase in credit access might reduce the positive impact of environmental awareness and IT use on MSME sustainability. Overall, this study confirms the importance of environmental awareness and information technology in improving MSME sustainability and highlights the need for proper management of credit access.

Acknowledgment
Appreciation is given to the Directorate General of Higher Education, Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, which has provided a fundamental research grant with contract number 108/E5/PG.02.00.PL/2024. Acknowledgments are also expressed to higher education service institutions (LLDIKTI) Region 6 and the Institute of Research and Community Services (LPPM) Unisnu Jepara Indonesia, which has supported this research.