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This article examines the decision-making process in the energetics sector. In the work, multicriteria decision-making support tools, their application domains and usability possibilities are analysed and structured. The article presents the support tools selected for environmental policy integration in energetics and determines the possibilities of their application for Lithuania's energetics policy. It gives the methodology of multicriteria decision-making in the energetics sector, based on the assessment of the impact of energy and environmental policy priority goals. The definition of 'harmonious development' is extended, regarding philosophies of various generations about the basic aspects of Human, Nature and System's capacity harmonization. According to this expanded definition, there is presented an improved energetics policy development system: Propulsion - State - Response (PSR). The main contribution is the design of the State phase, combining the Human, Nature and System parts, aiming to create overall and relevant strategies. A consecutive energetics policy development system is set out and the method of its use is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essence of sustainable development is to attain mutual harmony and compromise of three equal values: environment, economy and social society. In order to achieve this goal none of the values should not be made primary over the others and their coexistence should be ensured by proper conditions. Due to the significance of implementation of sustainable development goals various environmental measures are needed which are based not on state enforcement, but on enabling to avoid environmental law violations and encouraging voluntary compliance with the requirements of environmental law. As a consequence, the balance between the environmental, economic and social society goals can be ensured more effectively. The potentially effective measure to ensure compliance with the requirements of environmental law is public disclosure of environmental information and violators of environmental law. The article considers the importance of the concept of public disclosure of environmental information, Lithuanian practice on this issue, and its importance for the purposes of sustainable development. The author also reveals the concept of public disclosure of environmental law violations, analyzes this topic in the context of Lithuania, and its importance for the achievement of sustainable development goals. The mechanism of public disclosure of environmental information enables the society to control legal entities, so that they do not unduly focus solely on their economic goals, thus denying other values to the society. Public disclosure of information on legal entities which have committed environmental law violations and state enforcement measures applied to them encourages legal entities to voluntarily comply with the requirements of environmental law and not to commit environmental law violations. The author concludes that both public disclosure of environmental information and public disclosure of legal entities which have committed environmental law violations and enforcement measures applied to them by the state encourages legal entities to voluntarily abstain from committing environmental law violations and enables to reduce costs of enforcement. If legal entities voluntarily comply with environmental law requirements, the need for control and supervising bureaucracy apparatus decreases and the aims of sustainable development can be achieved more effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]