Exploring the dissemination of environmental certifications in high and low polluting industries

Saizarbitoria, Iñaki Heras; Arana, Germán; Boiral, Olivier

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.10.088

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“…Such a result is consistent with some existing research, e.g., by Chapple et al (2001) who argue that ISO 14001 certificate adoption tends to be less likely when a firm becomes more powerful in terms of its level of export, market share, and profitability. They are also in line with the research by Heras-Saizarbitoria et al (2015) which shows that the adoption of environmental management systems among the EU member states differs by environmental impacts of economic activities sectors.…”

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The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification

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2015

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This study examines the relationship between the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries and the adoption of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 environmental management system. First, through a multivariate comparative analysis of the secondary data obtained from the public statistics, a Hellwig’s synthetic indicator is created to rank the level of socioeconomic development of the EU 28 countries. Then, using the total number of certificates issued in 2012 and the increase from 2011, this study has found a correlation between the level of national socioeconomic development and the adoption of ISO 14001 system in their businesses. Although there was no relationship between the number of ISO 14001 certificates in 2012 and the level of socioeconomic development at the national level, a weak negative correlation was observed between the increase of certification from 2011 to 2012 and the level of national socioeconomic development. The results suggest a higher interest in ISO 14001 adoption by the firms from the less developed countries than those from the more developed states.

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The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification

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“…With regards to the influence of the public grants and other subsidies to adopt EMAS, it has been evidenced that the covering costs by means of grants initially obtained by firms to enable them to adopt the environmental certificate are positively related to the likelihood of not renewing it. This finding seems to confirm that the EMAS certification is essentially driven by public incentives and/or constraints (Iraldo et al, 2013;Glachant et al, 2002;Heras-Saizarbitoria et al, 2015b). The role of the public incentives for the adoption of environmental certifications as well as other initiatives for CSR and environmental management should therefore receive more attention.…”

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Renewing environmental certification in times of crisis

Saizarbitoria

Boiral

Arana

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The certification of environmental management systems based on international meta-standards such as ISO 14001 and the Eco Management and Audit Scheme has become one of the most common environmental practices. Nevertheless, the financial and economic difficulties faced by many organizations raise the issue of certification renewal and may have an impact on the trends toward decertification recently observed, notably in the case of the later standard. Surprisingly, this issue remains almost unexplored in the literature. The objective of this paper is to analyze the intention to renew environmental certifications in time of crisis in light of the motivations, obstacles and benefits of this standard. For that purpose, correlation and regression analyses were used with data obtained from 361 Spanish certified firms. The novelty of the study lies in analyzing for the first time in the literature how the intention to renew environmental certifications is shaped by several factors within a context of deep economic crisis. The article contains practical implications for the stakeholders of third party environmental certification, notably managers and policy-makers.

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“…Following the scheme proposed by Heras-Saizarbitoria et al (2015), in Italy, less than a half of EMAS-registered organizations belong to high environmental impact industries (425 organizations) [57]. Comparing these figures with Table 5, we can observe that from the sectors in which the abandonment rate has been higher, 7.3% belong to "Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply" (high environmental impact industries).…”

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Why Companies Do Not Renew Their EMAS Registration? An Exploratory Research

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Abstract:The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is the official Environmental Management System (EMS) issued by the European Union (EU). Italy is the country where EMAS is most widespread, accounting for over 1000 registered organizations. Since the entry into the force of the Regulation in 1997, the number of registrations has constantly grown until 2008, when the figures started to drop. The phenomena are due to both the decrease of the annual registration rate and the lack of renewals. According to the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), in recent years, an increasing number of organizations decided to withdraw from EMAS registration. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reasons of this negative trend. The first step consisted of a literature review concerning the main barriers, difficulties and costs incurred by EMAS-registered organizations. Subsequently, this information was integrated with data about the evolution of EMAS registrations and the results of a previous survey, which involved the entire population of Italian registered firms. The present exploratory research highlighted economic and operational domains concerning the cancellation trends that deserve a deeper investigation, which will be conducted through a questionnaire addressed to Italian firms that did not renew the registration in the last lustrum. The intended output will allow us to identify stakeholders' priority intervention areas in order to suggest an operative strategy to reduce EMAS cancellation rates, addressed to Member States (MS) Competent Bodies.

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Exploring the dissemination of environmental certifications in high and low polluting industries

Cited by 83 publications

References 56 publications

The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification

The level of socioeconomic development of EU countries and the state of ISO 14001 certification

Renewing environmental certification in times of crisis

Why Companies Do Not Renew Their EMAS Registration? An Exploratory Research

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