Researching effects of fiscal policy on innovation of environmental technologies

Governments should use market mechanisms to encourage actions that work towards the goal of sustainable development. Favourable treatment of investments in clean technologies, within a revenue-neutral tax shift, could speed their introduction. Such instruments will encourage, rather than force, industry to improve and reward companies which pursue good environmental management in keeping with sustainable development, often inducing improvements that go beyond minimum standards.

1. Many advances which meet social needs or help preserve the environment fail to meet the narrow criteria of return on financial investment. They require appropriate policies and government backing to bring about their benefits.

1. Researching regulatory priorities
2. Researching policies
3. Researching international technology cooperation
4. Regulating industrial environmental performance
5. Developing technology policy

1. Using market forces to improve global environment
2. Using fiscal incentives in innovative financing
3. Sustaining innovative techniques
4. Removing barriers to environmental innovation
5. Reforming budgetary practices
6. Recognizing eco-pioneers in technology
7. Promoting social innovation
8. Formulating policy on sciences
9. Financing environmentally sound technologies in developing countries
10. Establishing technological research mechanisms
11. Developing technologies
12. Developing sustainable development policy
13. Developing pollution control technologies
14. Developing international environmental policy
15. Developing environmental technologies

1. Monitoring government policymaking for national environmental action plans

1. Researching effects of poor sanitation facilities

1. Environmental policy restrictions on economic development

1. Innovation
2. Ill
3. Diffuseness