Instrumenty ekonomiczne ochrony środowiska i ich wpływ na wynik finansowy przedsiębiorstwa

Nowadays companies feel obliged to achieve economic results and are also apply the principles of environmental protection. It results from implementing the principle of sustainable development as the main ecological policy. In practice it caused on increase in using economic instruments whose purpose was to reduce threats to the environment. The main aim of using economic tools is to include environmental external costs in company cost accounting according to the polluter pays principle. Therefore, the paper aims to present a short description of economic instruments and their role in sustainable development in business as well as an impact of economic instruments on company financial results.