The article discusses the issues of improving the activity of subjects of environmental management in accordance with international environmental standards and national environmental legislation. The article deals with the problem of ensuring the implementation of international environmental standards, the introduction of eco-management, and the practice of eco-labeling and corporate waste management. Existing problems in the area of corporate environmental management are reviewed and recommendations on improving the institutions are put forward. A special attention is paid to the involvement of community and community-based organizations in the environmental management affairs. In order to achieve this goal, abstract-logical, economic and statistical methods are used in the article, the experience of the scientists on the problems of the economy and the environment, their relations and interactions is summarized. The main problem that stands on the way of achieving an effective environmental management is the desire of company's management teams to improve their financial performance by neglecting environmental issues. In order to improve the environmental standards, it is necessary to stimulate population masses to study environment problems.