Solving Environmental Problems as a Priority for “Young” Companies Conducting IPOs Amid Global Economic Uncertainty

A crisis has always been a challenge for any economic entity: from households to governments and transnational corporations. Another challenge was thrown down to the global economy in 2020, it was the COVID-19 pandemic, which entailed some serious and large-scale restrictions and turned out to be disastrous for the economic development. Despite the unfavorable situation on the market as a whole, the stock market is characterized by positive dynamics in the context of the pandemic, which is particularly noticeable from the number of IPOs conducted during the pandemic. In this research, companies that are just launching their shares on the stock market are considered as “young” ones, and the environmental policies of such companies are the subject of the study. The purpose of the study will be to assess the involvement of companies that conducted IPOs in the context of the global crisis in solving environmental problems, taking into account the time and geographic factors. The methodological basis of the research includes the methods of comparative and statistical analysis, comparison of time series and expert assessment. As a result of the study, the authors formulated the geographical and chronological characteristics of companies’ contribution to sustainability and solving environmental issues, the geographical structure turned out to be uneven, and the dynamics in the time perspective has a tendency to constant growth. The main motive that encourages companies to increase environmental costs is improving the company’s image in the eyes of investors. In conclusion, the necessity to maintain a positive “green” trend among companies by government officials was determined by the authors.