The analysis of the inner workings of the firm has been largely absent from economic assessments of environmental policy. In an effort to partly fill this vacuum, this book summarises the results of an OECD project which collected and analysed data from over 4,000 facilities in seven OECD...

L’analyse du fonctionnement interne de l’entreprise est largement absente de l’évaluation économique des politiques de l’environnement. Dans le but de combler en partie cette lacune, cet ouvrage synthétise les résultats d’un projet de l’OCDE qui a conduit à recueillir et à...

Voluntary approaches are schemes whereby firms make commitments to improve their environmental performance.They cover arrangements such as public voluntary programmes, negotiated agreements or unilateral commitments. Until recently, voluntary approaches have not been subject to systematic...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is business's contribution to sustainable development. Today, corporate behaviour must not only ensure returns to shareholders, wages to employees, and products and services to customers, it must also respond to societal and environmental concerns. Local...

To address many of the environmental challenges that face us today, including climate change, countries are striving to deploy efficient and effective tools for environmental management at the national level. Tradable/transferable permits are one such tool. What are the key design parameters for...

Do voluntary approaches deliver the expected environmental benefits? Do they help reach environmental targets in a cost-effective way? This report provides an assessment of the use of voluntary approaches building on a number of new case studies. Analysis is on the environmental effectiveness,...

This study examines the impact of green finance (GFIN) and green innovation (GTI) on environmental sustainability in seven South American countries from 2000 to 2020.The study employs panel data econometric techniques using the Method of Moments Quantile Regression approach to explore the...

This study explores the mediating role of innovation output in the relationship between green management and the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).This research is based on a dataset collected by the Ibero-American SME Observatory, comprising 3,966 manufacturing SMEs in...

This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation system to facilitate a comparative analysis of environmental competitiveness on a global scale. This is a new way to measure competitiveness in the light of the contradiction...