UNCLASSIFIED 83. The strategic goals of environmental security and the rational environmental management are: -- the preservation and restoration of natural systems and support for the quality of the environment necessary for human life and the sustained development of the economy; -- the elimination of environmental damage from business activity in conditions of growing economic activity and global climate change. 84. The state of environmental security is being negatively impacted by the depletion of reserves of minerals and raw material, water, and biological resources, as a result of inefficient and "predatory" use of natural resources, the predominance in the economy of extractive and resource-intensive sectors, the large proportion of the shadow economy in the sphere of use of natural resources, and the presence of environmentally unfortunate territories characterized by a high degree of pollution and the breakdown of ecosystems. Problems in the sphere of the environment are exacerbated owing to the presence of a significant number of environmentally hazardous manufacturing processes, a lack of capacity for the removal of atmospheric discharge and industrial and municipal effluent and for the treatment, neutralization, recycling, disposal, and reprocessing of solid industrial and consumer waste and also owing to environmental pollution caused by the trans-border transfer of toxic substances, infectious-disease pathogens, and radioactive substances from the territories of other states. The insufficient effectiveness of state control of the state of the environment and of observance of environmental standards by businesses and also the low level of environmental education and environmental culture of the population contribute to the increased impact of these factors. 85. The strategic goals of environmental security and rational use of natural resources shall be achieved through the shaping and execution of long-term state policy geared to the protection and reproduction of the natural and ecological potential of the Russian Federation and a rise in the level of environmental education and environmental culture of the citizens. 86. For countering threats in the sphere of environmental security and rational use of natural resources, institutions of state power and organs of local self-government shall in collaboration with institutions of civil society take action geared to: -- incentivizing the introduction of innovative technology and the development of environmentally secure manufacturing processes; -- the development of recycling industry and the secondary use of industrial and consumer waste; -- the creation of facilities meeting modern environmental standards for the disposal, recycling, and reprocessing of solid industrial and consumer waste; -- the building and modernization of waste-treatment facilities and also the introduction of technology for reducing the quantity of discharge of harmful substances and effluent; UNCLASSIFIED