The paper analyzes approaches to understanding the concept of the bioeconomy in highly cited journals, and bioeconomy strategies in associations of countries (the OECD and EU) and at the national level. Strategic challenges for sustainable bioeconomy governance are identified and an understanding of this concept is presented. The main aims, such as decoupling, the use of biotechnology, the use of sustainable biomass in the production process, and a high level of corporate social responsibility, are proposed for the identification of industries related to the bioeconomy. Specific goal achievement within the bioeconomy strategy and possible risks of conflict between SDGs are presented in the model. The bioeconomy should be considered a tool for achieving SDGs; the most relevant being 2, 3, 7, 9, 12, and 13–15. However, the achievement of bioeconomy goals can lead to a conflict between SDGs in practice. Therefore, this aspect must be taken into account at the stage of developing bioeconomy strategy and regulated in governance, to prevent conflicts between SDGs and to involve citizens and stakeholders in participating consciously in this process.

Under decentralization, local governments gain more rights and opportunities to use various types of resources, thus, increasing their level of responsibility (including social responsibility) for the use of resources. The paper aims to reveal the consequences of decentralization reform for the indicators of united territorial communities (UTCs) budgeting that reflect their general socio-economic condition, as well as the nature of the latter one; to adapt the balanced scorecard (BSC) to the feature of UTCs’ functioning, and to develop the UTCs strategic map. The paper indicates that the system of balanced indicators is an analytical tool for ensuring the realization of the concept of social responsibility of the UТСs. The research resulted in the development of the balanced scorecard of indicators for UTCs. It includes the following blocks: internal business processes, funding, service providers, service consumers, and environment. The research contributed to the development of UTCs strategic map based on BSC adapted to the peculiarities of UTCs. The strategic map provides an opportunity to link strategic goals of UTCs with the developed BSC blocks and allows for a successful implementation of the concept of UTCs’ social responsibility in conditions of the need to achieve sustainable development.

The paper deals with global trends in energy consumption and renewable energy generation. Worldwide practices in financing of renewable energy production are analysed according to the following dimensions: sources of financing, types of used policy instruments, types of recipients (public or private) and types of financed technologies. The key factors that influence the investment attractiveness of renewable energy sources in the world are presented. Main obstacles impeding the utilisation of potential of renewable energy generation in Ukraine are pointed out from the standpoint of the global development trends, as the experience of economically developed countries are advised to be used for Ukraine. Conditions for investment activity in this field should be created (involving both domestic and foreign investments), stimulating state policy should be implemented, and an energy management based on the international experience should be developed. The problems of renewable energy sources in Ukraine are described, in particular, the presence of investment risk in terms of its components as general economic, legal and financial. In the most developed countries in terms of RES consumption direct public investment is a small proportion of total renewable energy financing, whereas private investment has the major share. A significant obstacle to the possibility of realizing such experience in Ukraine is the presence of investment risk, mainly caused by unstable political conditions (both internal and external). Energy management and monitoring activities of enterprises of various forms of ownership and branch affiliation should be introduced along with the necessity of attracting investments in renewable energy. It is expected that the results presented in this article may be useful for improving the renewable energy development policy both at the country level and at the level of a particular economic entity.

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The article considers the issues of modern information technologies and services in public institutions (on the example of educational institutions). The aim of the article is to study the application of modern information technologies and services, in particular Google services, in such public institutions as educational institutions during the pandemic and to identify opportunities for their wider use. Based on a study to assess the economic benefits of using Google services, it has been found that their wider use in educational institutions will also have a positive effect. It is determined that the use of the service "Google" allows you to solve problems of information support of management and educational processes in the educational institution, work together on different types of documents, avoid distortion of information while working on them by different users by setting the appropriate level of document access. Based on the study, it is proposed to classify Google services for the purposes of scientific and pedagogical work of teachers of educational institutions on the following grounds: general services; services for self-organization and productivity; services for educational purposes; services for scientific purposes; services for commercial and other purposes. It is established that in order to increase the efficiency of different goals, it is advisable to combine Google services for different purposes, such as general, educational and to increase productivity. It has also been established that the collaboration with Google services is organized at the excellent level necessary to work with documents and quickly access the information, taking into account the current conditions of the pandemic. The analysis of the directions of education reform and the possibilities of application of information technologies during their implementation gives grounds to assert that the decisive factor in achieving the main goals of education reform is its informatization. And the use of modern information technologies and services helps to increase the self-organization and productivity of the administration of the educational institution, teachers and students, to optimize educational and management processes. The results of the study are the basis for further research in terms of more effective use of modern information technology and services in public institutions on the example of educational institutions.