Oecd Publishing

Business and the Environment: Policy Incentives and Corporate Responses Oecd Publishing

The analysis of the inner workings of the firm has been largely absent from economic assessments of environmental policy. In an effort to partly fill this vacuum, this book summarises the results of an OECD project which collected and analysed data from over 4,000 facilities in seven OECD countries. Issues addressed includethe role of 'flexible' policy instruments in encouraging clean production strategies and environmental research and development; the effectiveness of different environmental policy incentives on the introduction of environmental management systems and tools; and the relationship between environmental and commercial performance. Table of Content : Executive Summary Chapter 1. Project Background and Coverage of the Database Chapter 2. Environmental Policy Regimes and Other Stakeholders Chapter 3. Environmental Management Systems and Tools Chapter 4. Environmental Performance Chapter 5. Clean Production and Environmental R D Chapter 6. Environmental and Commercial Synergies Chapter 7. Policy Conclusions Annex 1. Research Teams Annex 2. Survey Design and Protocol Annex 3. Schedule for Data Collection Annex 4. Supplementary Tables Annex 5. Selected Data by Sector and Country References