For preserving and restoring ecosystems, maintaining the harmonious existence of living and inanimate nature, achieving balance in the use of natural resources, ensuring environmental safety, the effective state government is necessary. It should be based on State Environmental Policy.

In accordance with section 2 of the Law of Ukraine " About the Basic principles (strategy) of the state environmental policy of Ukraine for the period till 2020", the purpose of national ecological policy is to stabilize and improve the condition of environment of Ukraine through integration of ecological policy into social and economic development of Ukraine to guarantee the environmentally safe environment for life and health of human being, to introduce the ecologically balanced system of nature use and to preserve the nature ecological systems.

Recently, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ostap Semerak noted that for the first time in the years of independence, the environment had become a priority of the state policy of Ukraine. However, in a detailed analysis of the decisions and the measures taken, one can conclude that the state environmental policy of Ukraine is far from perfect.

One of the main problems is the lack of a systematic and integrated approach to the formation and implementation of environmental policy.

Nature is a system where all the elements are interconnected and affect each other, so the decisions that are made to preserve and restore it must be balanced and complex.

Currently, in spite of the reform of the environmental sphere, Ukraine does not have such an important, comprehensive approach to the formation and implementation of environmental policy. It causes irreparable harm to the environment.

One of the ways to improve environmental policy can be to apply the concept of Sustainable Development as a basis for its implementation.

By definition, as proposed by the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission), Sustainable Development is a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Thus, a conscious restriction on the consumption of natural resources is the basis for the further development of not only a separate state, but also humanity as a whole. Therefore, the formation of environmental policy which was based on the concept of Sustainable Development and aimed at achieving the SDGs will enable to more effectively solve urgent environmental problems.