Greenhouse gas emissions in European Union

Abstract

The significant problem of simultaneous maintaining of the steady growth rate and slowing down the level of GHG (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) emissions is raised in the European strategy 2020. The EKC (Environmental Kuznets Curve) concept is one of the approaches used for studying the interaction between the different effects of economic growth and the indicators of environment degradation in the course of the country’s development. It can be used for designing the climate change and sustainable development policies. This article aims to describe the GHG as a variable representing the environmental quality in further research in the EU context and to present a theoretical technique with the model, assessing the factors, which may have an impact on the GHG level based on the economic theory.