Regulating industrial environmental performance

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.

1. 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.

1. Using environmental law
2. Regulating environmental protection
3. Preventing production of hazardous wastes
4. Licensing production
5. Advancing industrial environmental management

1. Researching effects of fiscal policy on innovation of environmental technologies
2. Providing incentives for industry to use cleaner production technology
3. Promoting product stewardship
4. Improving enforcement of environmental regulations
5. Establishing environmental regulatory controls
6. Complying with environmental regulations

1. Promoting environmental responsibility in mining
2. Practicing corporate environmental self-assessment
3. Developing national policy to control transboundary air pollution

1. Using economic instruments for sustainable development
2. Researching industrial crime
3. Researching environmental crime
4. Increasing support for sustainable development programmes of small and medium enterprises
5. Ensuring compatibility of environmental and trade law
6. Criticizing corporate environmental performance

1. Fostering small business

1. Dismantling environmental regulatory controls
2. Avoiding environmental regulation

1. Promoting environmental certification schemes

1. Northern Alliance for Sustainability