Voluntary Agreements with Industry

Storey, Mark; Boyd, Gale; Dowd, Jeff

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9311-3_11

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“…Public voluntary schemes have been used to achieve reduction in greenhouse gases by increasing energy efficiency in several countries in the EU (Storey, Boyd and Dowd, 1999). Voluntary programs in the EU provide participants with more direct regulatory relief than those in the U.S. For example, the Danish voluntary program to reduce CO 2 offers a choice of voluntarily committing to pre-identified CO 2 reducing investment in exchange for being levied a lower tax per ton of CO 2 .…”

Section: Public Voluntary Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The traditional literature in environmental economics analyzing a firm's behavior under alternative environmental policies typically assumes profit-maximizing firms that take prices and regulations as given and have no incentives to control pollution in the absence of environmental regulations or go beyond compliance with existing regulations because pollution control only imposes costs that are non-productive (see the survey in Cropper and Oates, 1992). Studies analyzing environmental self-regulation by firms continue to assume that a voluntary agreement, while facilitating voluntary action with a desirable social outcome, is undertaken by firms based on their self-interest (Storey, Boyd and Dowd, 1999). These agreements are therefore self-enforcing by definition.…”

Section: Motivations For Voluntary Initiatives and Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Non‐Mandatory Approaches to Environmental Protection

Khanna

2001

Journal of Economic Surveys

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The approach to environmental protection has been evolving from a regulation‐driven, adversarial ‘government‐push’ approach to a more proactive approach involving voluntary and often ‘business‐led’ initiatives to self‐regulate their environmental performance. This has been accompanied by increasing provision of environmental information about firms and products to enlist market forces and communities in creating a demand for corporate environmental self‐regulation by signaling their preferences for environmentally friendly firms. This paper provides an overview of the non‐mandatory approaches being used for environmental protection and surveys the existing theoretical literature analyzing the economic efficiency of such approaches relative to mandatory approaches. It also discusses empirical findings on the factors motivating self‐regulation by firms and its implications for their economic and environmental performance. It examines the existing evidence on the extent to which information disclosure is effective in generating pressures from investors and communities on firms to improve their environmental performance.

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Section: Public Voluntary Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Motivations For Voluntary Initiatives and Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Non‐Mandatory Approaches to Environmental Protection

Khanna

2001

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…The major international organisations refer to a very similar group of arguments, as demonstrates by OECD (Storey, 1996) and European Union (Commission of European Communities, 1996, European Commission -DGIII.01 Industry, 1997 and European Environment Agency, 1997) positions.…”

Section: The Conditions Of Applicative Effectiveness: the Debatementioning

confidence: 96%

Environmental Voluntary Agreements: A New Model of Co-operation between Public and Economic Actors

Pesaro

2001

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Technical abstractThe diffusion of voluntary agreements can be considered as the result of the innovation of environmental policies based on a new style of interaction between public and private actors.As the environmental problems complexity increases, an evolution of interaction model occurs.The literature on environmental policy innovation shows in a clear way that the use of voluntary agreements and their real capability to produce relevant effects are strictly linked to the innovation paths of environmental policies, policy styles and policy networks. In this paper we will focus our attention on the evolution of the model of interaction between public and economic actors as the key element to evaluate voluntary agreements effectiveness in policy targets reaching. Non technical abstractThe diffusion of voluntary agreements can be considered as the result of the innovation of environmental policies based on a new style of interaction between public and private actors.As the environmental problems complexity increases, an evolution of interaction model occurs.A change in the interaction forms also implies a change in the ways actors face problems and consequently in the ways they think and act. The resulting policy implementation structure is an effect of the participation and co-operation degree of a number of actors (public bodies at the national and local level, economic actors, citizens and environmental associations etc.).And it is also a consequence of the nature of actors and of actors' roles and resources into the decision-making process.The literature on environmental policy innovation shows in a clear way that the use of voluntary agreements and their real capability to produce relevant effects are strictly linked to the innovation paths of environmental policies, policy styles and policy networks. In this paper we will focus our attention on the evolution of the model of interaction between public and economic actors as the key element to evaluate voluntary agreements effectiveness in policy targets reaching. The effectiveness analysis proposed refers to the instrument capability to effectively create new policy communities and networks and to the conditions under which the networks can operate and develop effective decision-making processes.This choice of analysis reflects also the need to better understand the recent evolution in the use of voluntary agreements in Italy, where in the end of 1998 the Italian Gover...

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“…Characteristics Gibson (1999, p. 3) draws a comparison between environmental voluntary approaches and the fall of Troy and notes 'gift horses have (Lynes and Gibson, 1996) Other (Storey et al, 1999) (OECD, 1999Carraro and Lévêque, 1999;Higley et al, 2001;Lévêque, 1998 been treated with some suspicion. Etiquette may rule against looking them in the mouth, but other parts are worth checking out'.…”

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An organizing framework for the implementation of environmental voluntary approaches

Cunningham

Clinch

2004

Eur. Env.

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There is a rich terminology associated with environmental voluntary approaches. The richness in terminology is matched by the pervasive nature of the implementation of voluntary approaches into the fabric of European environmental policy and regulation. The lack of a universal definition of what an environmental voluntary approach is has made the implementation task more difficult. The richness in terminology dealing with environmental voluntary approaches is categorized and the characteristics, context and implementation of environmental voluntary approaches are discussed. This paper proposes an organizing framework for the implementation of environmental voluntary approaches, which includes context assessment; instrument rationale; negotiation process; content; implementation; and post‐implementation, enforcement and monitoring. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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Voluntary Agreements with Industry

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Non‐Mandatory Approaches to Environmental Protection

Non‐Mandatory Approaches to Environmental Protection

Environmental Voluntary Agreements: A New Model of Co-operation between Public and Economic Actors

An organizing framework for the implementation of environmental voluntary approaches

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