FINAL WORKSHOP REPORT on “SMEs AND GREEN ECONOMY” organized by ORGANIZATION OF THE BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION (BSEC) and KONRAD-ADENAUER-STIFTUNG (KAS) 13-16 April 2016 Kyiv, Ukraine SMEs AND GREEN ECONOMY Edited by Dr. Antal Szabó Dr. Colin Dürkop 13-16 April 2016 Kyiv, Ukraine Published by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the permission of Konrad – Adenauer – Stiftung Ahmet Rasim Sokak No: 27 06550 Çankaya-Ankara/TÜRKİYE Telephone : +90 312 440 40 80 Faks : +90 312 440 32 48 E-mail :
[email protected] www.kas.de/tuerkei ISBN : 978-605-4679-17-1 Designed & Printed by : OFSET FOTOMAT +90 312 395 37 38 Ankara, 2016 7 | ABBREVIATIONS 11 | PREFACE by Ambassador Michael B. Christides 15 | INTRODUCTION by Dr. Colin Dürkop 19 | 1. HARMONIZATION OF EU, UN, OECD AND UKRAINIAN GREEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS by Prof. Vyacheslav Potapenko 27 | 2. ECO-INNOVATION AND GREEN ACTION PLAN FOR SMEs IN THE EUROPEAN UNION by Dr. Antal Szabó 41 | 3. NATIONAL COUNTRY STUDIES IN THE BSEC REGION 41 | 3.1 SMEs AND GREEN ECONOMY IN ALBANIA by Arbër Demeti, PhD, Erjona Rebi (Suljoti), PhD, Arlinda Demeti, MSc 64 | 3.2 PROMOTING GREEN PERFORMANCE OF SMEs IN ARMENIA by Lilit Apujanyan 79 | 3.3 SMEs AND GREEN ECONOMY IN AZERBAIJAN by Farid Amirov 86 | 3.4 SMEs AND GREEN ECONOMY IN BULGARIA– ENERGY FOR SMEs IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM by Georgi Stoev, PhD 101 | 3.5 GREEN ECONOMY IN GEORGIA by Eteri Mamukelashvili 139 | 3.6 GO GREEN IN GREECE by Irini Voudouris, PhD 160 | 3.7 GREEN ECONOMY AND SMEs IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA by Prof.