strategy
Regulating industrial environmental performance
Synonyms:
Requiring clean productionEnforcing corporate environmental performance
Legislating mandatory business standards for the environment
Context:
Identifying innovative regulatory best practice internationally in a number of specific contexts, evaluating empirically the effectiveness of regulatory reform and providing policy prescriptions that would better enable agencies to fulfil their regulatory missions. Claim:
1. The institutional and regulatory capacities of Governments to interact with the private sector should be enhanced. A greater commitment by the private sector should be pursued to engender a new culture of environmental accountability through the application of the polluter-pays principle, environmental performance indicators and reporting, and the establishment of a precautionary approach in investment and technology decisions. Broader:
Advancing industrial environmental managementLicensing productionUsing environmental lawRegulating environmental protectionPreventing production of hazardous wastes Narrower:
Complying with environmental regulationsEstablishing environmental regulatory controlsImproving enforcement of environmental regulationsProviding incentives for industry to use cleaner production technologyResearching effects of fiscal policy on innovation of environmental technologiesPromoting product stewardship Constrains:
Fostering small business Facilitates:
Promoting environmental responsibility in miningDeveloping national policy to control transboundary air pollutionPracticing corporate environmental self-assessment Facilitated by:
Researching industrial crimeResearching environmental crimeCriticizing corporate environmental performanceEnsuring compatibility of environmental and trade lawUsing economic instruments for sustainable developmentIncreasing support for sustainable development programmes of small and medium enterprises References:
Gunningham, Neil and Sinclair, Darren: Leaders and Laggards: Next-generation environmental regulation Subjects:
Commerce → Business enterprisesIndustry → Industry
Industry → Production
Societal Problems → Hygiene
Research, Standards → Standards
Law → Law
Law → Regulation
Law → Law enforcement
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
