strategy
Providing incentives for industry to use cleaner production technology
Synonyms:
Implementing economic instruments to promote cleaner production Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends promoting public education and a range of regulatory and non-regulatory incentives to encourage industry to change product design and reduce industrial process waste through cleaner production technology and good housekeeping practice. Broader:
Providing incentive conditions for productionRegulating industrial environmental performanceDecoupling economic growth and pollution increaseUsing economic instruments for sustainable developmentUsing economic instruments to manage environmental health costsAchieving cleaner production Facilitated by:
Providing access to appropriate technology Values:
AbuseUnusedUnderuseUneconomicIncentivesDisincentiveUnproductivityOverproductionUnderproduction Subjects:
Social Activity → Employment conditionsAmenities → Cleaning
Amenities → Instruments
Communication → Promotion
Industry → Industry
Industry → Production
Economics → Economic
Technology → Technology
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
