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Power generation policy equals the safety policy of a certain country. It should be reasonable and it should consider the access to available energy sources. The crucial issue revolves around minimizing the negative influence of power generation sector on the environment. At the same time, recent years have proven the united stand of world policies toward power generation. Poland has also attempted to determine a new model of power generation strategy. This strategy ought to consider the needs of both the recipients and climate challenges. But there is a crucial question of the shape of the new strategy for development of power system within the next years in the light of requirements of convention on climate change. During the Climate Conference in Paris in December 2015 – 195 countries accepted the first world agreement related to climate preservation. The agreement determines a world action plan, which is to prevent climate change as the result of climate warming. One of the goals is a quick reduction of emissions including power generation sector. This overview presents a current state of National Power System, availability of primary energy sources and various power technologies of future strategy for power system development. The technologies are described in view of their possible use for power generation and their applicability for the reduction of emissions of harmful substances to the atmosphere.

In Japan, a multitude of slope disasters occur annually, resulting in often severe loss of human life. On occasion, disasters that occur at very gentle slopes and disasters that flow long distance, associated with destructive energy, are observed. In such cases, the trigger layer often consists of volcanic soils with extremely high void ratios and external triggers, including earthquake or heavy rainfall, increase the risk of slope disasters. These volcanic soils are often characterised by an extremely loose structure and are either retained mainly by weak cementation or are composed of crushable particles having intra voids. Although the cause of destructive long-distance flow has been explained by liquefaction, there are some observed disasters in which the trigger layer was not fully saturated, i.e. liquefaction should not be considered as a major cause. Focusing on the fact that long-distance flow or gentle slope flow, disasters are triggered by volcanic soil layers of extremely loose structure, artificial loose soil samples were prepared in the laboratory. These samples were prepared with cementation between particles and with crushable particles. In this study, deformation and strength characteristics of the extremely loose soils were investigated by conducting CD triaxial tests. It is revealed that such extremely loose soils can be vulnerable after the weakly cemented structure collapses as a result of external factors such as earthquakes.

In the presented study, an assessment was made of the innovative development of agriculture in the Russian Federation. As part of the study, it was found that innovative development is the effectiveness of the type of activity, which consists in increasing the use of new technologies, saving resources, reducing operating and capital costs, reducing environmental impacts, etc. In this regard, the work analyzed indicators reflecting energy capacity, internal research and development costs and the volume of innovative goods and services. The analyzed indicators indicate that in agriculture there is no tendency to switch to innovative technologies, as a result, the study proposed a model for ensuring the innovative development of agriculture. At the end of the study, conclusions are drawn from the results of the work.

Energy performance guarantee projects aim at achieving a given energy consumption in real life conditions. Building energy consumption monitoring during operation phase often reveals that energy consumption is sensitive to building spaces use and systems operation quality, especially for buildings with high energy performance characteristics [7]. Other investigations show the impact of building users’ behaviour on energy consumption [28]. These factors must be added to climate factors for energy consumption prediction during operation phase. Number of factors and possible combinations is very high. Building energy modeling is limited regarding this issue and metamodeling has been used to solve this problem [25]. We developed metamodels that are polynomial functions using D-optimal design of experiment (DOE) approach. Such metamodels can become operational tools to use in the IPMVP framework, associated with a M&V plan. This paper shows the application of the method on a cultural building that comprises numerous systems and usages. We obtain a reliable metamodel of the energy consumption as a function of climate, operation, and space use factors. which meets IPMVP [11] and ASHRAE Guideline 14 [3] modeling uncertainties criteria. We also determine the global uncertainty resulting from predictors’ uncertainties propagation and modelling uncertainty associated with the metamodel.

In China, the proportion of coal in the energy structure is high, and the utilization of coal will cause carbon emission and environmental pollution. Therefore, the adjustment of energy structure and the utilization of new energy has become the focus of China's efforts to comprehensively promote the green development of energy. At present, developing nuclear power has become a key way to break through the bottleneck of new energy power supply and realize economic and ecological benefits. Based on the current situation and existing problems of China's nuclear power industry, this paper puts forward the challenges and measures for the future development of nuclear power.

In order to promote China's economy high-quality development, the country has continuously lowered the certification standards for high-tech enterprises. The existing research literature has not yet reached a clear conclusion about the impact of high-tech qualification certification on enterprise innovation performance. This paper uses the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2013 to 2018 as a research sample. Through the propensity score matching method, it is found that the implementation of the high-tech enterprise identification policy has an effect on the innovation performance of the enterprise, especially for strategic innovation represented by the number of non-invention patent applications. The sub-sample results show that the identification policy has a more obvious impact on the innovation performance of non-state-owned enterprises, young enterprises and larger enterprises. Finally, based on the results of the research, it is proposed to continuously improve the identification policy, guide enterprises to make substantial innovations, and implement hierarchical tax rates for different types of enterprises to help improve the identification policies for high-tech enterprises.

The author of the article notes the obvious contradiction of our time, which consists in the fact that the rapid development of technology is combined with an increase in political tension, escalation of violence, and an eschatological feeling of extreme depletion of environmental and civilizational resources. This testifies to the crisis state of civilization, which can be more accurately described as a crisis of man himself. Based on the principle of the interdependence of anthropology and culture, the author proposes to include in the orbit of theological understanding not only the social and humanitarian sphere of civilization life, but also natural science, as well as the technosphere. The article proposes a variant of the classification of traditions and methods of broadcasting their content, which makes it possible to look at science as part of a cultural tradition that builds relationships with a spiritual tradition as a core one. But, first of all, the structuring of traditions in society makes it possible to clearly see their hierarchy and mutual influences. Especially valuable is the isolation of the spiritual tradition and the separation of the religious from it. This provides a key to understanding many processes in the history of civilization - in the sphere of religious life, in culture, in socio-political processes. Traditions such as religious, cultural and social build their own relationships with spiritual tradition. The forms of these relations create a multidimensional characteristic of the state of society in a given historical period.

The issues of the environmentally friendly business development in Russia are considered in the paper. The authors research the concept of green production and market, management tools for corporate environmental responsibility. The paper examines the environmental innovations as changes in the socio-economic development of the society, which, together with a positive effect, improve the state of the environment or significantly reduce the negative impact on it. In the conclusion, the authors state that the greening of the enterprise’s relations with consumers implies, on the one hand, encouraging the supply of environmental goods and services, and on the other, creating a consumers’ good taste - economic needs and interests oriented to high eco standards. In the paper, the necessity of the green business guidelines implementation in Russia is justified. It helps to form and improve the entrepreneurial culture and a responsible attitude towards society and nature, as well as to promote principles of green economy.