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Book Voluntary Industry Agreements Program

Download or read book Voluntary Industry Agreements Program written by United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Industry Cooperation and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voluntary Agreements with Industry

Download or read book Voluntary Agreements with Industry written by Mark Storey and published by OECD. This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenhouse gas emission reductions, pollution, environment.

Book Voluntary Environmental Agreements

Download or read book Voluntary Environmental Agreements written by Patrick ten Brink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntary environmental agreements (VEAs) – generally agreements between government and business – have been regarded by many as a key new instrument for meeting environmental objectives in a flexible manner. Their performance to date has, however, also led to considerable criticism, with several parties arguing that they are methods for avoiding real action that goes beyond "business-as-usual". Is either of these positions justified? The aim of this book is to highlight and learn the lessons from existing experience, looking not just at results but also at specific elements of agreements and also at the process of the agreement itself. Lessons are drawn from experience from across the world, covering the full range of environmental challenges, and from the perspective of key stakeholder groups. Importantly, the book also presents tools for assessing and improving existing agreements and includes recommendations and guidelines for future agreements in key areas such as climate change. It also deals at length with the problem of how such agreements might be used in developing and transitional economies. The overall view of the book is that there is a real potential for the future use of VEAs as part of the policy mix and as a tool for sharing the responsibility for meeting environmental objectives. For the agreements to play this role, however, significant steps are needed to ensure that they are effective, efficient, equitable and appropriately linked to a portfolio of other instruments. The book is divided into four sections. First, existing agreements, their development and efficacy are considered; second, the prospects for voluntary agreements in developing and transitional economies are discussed; third, a range of authors examine the role of VEAs as part of the policy mix to combat climate change; and, finally, the book concludes with an examination of how new tools for evaluating and improving VEAs could be utilized in the future. Voluntary Environmental Agreements will be of interest not only to academics, governments and businesses wishing to understand this specific instrument, but also to those already implementing or considering applying VEAs to meet their environmental objectives.

Book Voluntary Agreements with Industry

Download or read book Voluntary Agreements with Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Policy Analysis of Voluntary Agreements for Energy Efficiency in Industry

Download or read book A Policy Analysis of Voluntary Agreements for Energy Efficiency in Industry written by Anders Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements

Download or read book The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements written by Edoardo Croci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a practical reference which provides common methodologies, implementation rules and evalutation criteria for researchers, policy makers and business operators in the use of environmental voluntary agreements between regulators and polluters The book takes into account the variety of forms and application situations characterizing this environmental policy instrument, illustrating methodologies, implementation rules and evaluation criteria for researchers, policy makers and business operators.

Book Energy Efficiency in Industry Through Voluntary Agreements

Download or read book Energy Efficiency in Industry Through Voluntary Agreements written by Kirsten Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voluntary Agreements with an Industry an Equilibrium Analysis

Download or read book Voluntary Agreements with an Industry an Equilibrium Analysis written by Na Li Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, there has been a worldwide increase in the use of voluntary approaches as an alternative to the costly command and control regulations for environmental protection. Many voluntary agreements (VAs) are concluded between government and industry or trade associations. A potential problem arises when an industry signs a VA with the government, namely, the incentive for individual firms to free-ride. An important policy question is whether this free-riding incentive undermines the viability of a VA to achieve an environmental quality target. In the existing literature, only a few studies address VAs with an industry. Several recent studies examining the free-riding problem in the context of VAs with an industry fail to explain the observed partial cooperation in the on-going VAs with an industry. This study differs from the previous studies in this respect. In this dissertation, I develop a multiple-firm model of an industry's voluntary adoption of environmental protection measures to achieve a predetermined industry-wide emissions reduction target under an explicit threat of alternative policies. I examine the free-riding incentive of individual firms and its impact on the viability of a VA. I find that, in order to take advantage of the potential cost savings under the VA, there is an incentive for a sub-group of firms in an industry to participate in a VA despite the free-riding problem. At equilibrium, participating firms enjoy no surplus, and non-participating firms are strictly better off than under alternative policies. When firms differ by abatement cost, firms with higher willingness-to-abate are more likely to participate. I prove that there always exists an equilibrium VA with at least one firm participating (except when the fixed cost under VA is very high). When extending the analysis to the long run where firms' entry and exit decisions are explicitly taken into account, the short run equilibrium is still sustainable. Under perfectly competitive market, the only long run equilibrium is one with full participation. In an oligopoly market with sunk entry cost, the degree of free-riding is reduced, but not completely eliminated as in the perfectly competitive market.

Book Using Voluntary Agreements in Environmental Policy

Download or read book Using Voluntary Agreements in Environmental Policy written by Björn E. Nilsson and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voluntary Agreements with an Industry

Download or read book Voluntary Agreements with an Industry written by Na Li Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voluntary Agreements for Energy Efficiency Or GHG EmissionsReduction in Industry

Download or read book Voluntary Agreements for Energy Efficiency Or GHG EmissionsReduction in Industry written by Lynn Price and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntary agreements for energy efficiency improvement and reduction of energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been a popular policy instrument for the industrial sector in industrialized countries since the 1990s. A number of these national-level voluntary agreement programs are now being modified and strengthened, while additional countries--including some recently industrialized and developing countries--are adopting these type of agreements in an effort to increase the energy efficiency of their industrial sectors. Voluntary agreement programs can be roughly divided into three broad categories: (1) programs that are completely voluntary, (2) programs that use the threat of future regulations or energy/GHG emissions taxes as a motivation for participation, and (3) programs that are implemented in conjunction with an existing energy/GHG emissions tax policy or with strict regulations. A variety of government-provided incentives as well as penalties are associated with these programs. This paper reviews 23 energy efficiency or GHG emissions reduction voluntary agreement programs in 18 countries, including countries in Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) and discusses preliminary lessons learned regarding program design and effectiveness. The paper notes that such agreement programs, in which companies inventory and manage their energy use and GHG emissions to meet specific reduction targets, are an essential first step towards GHG emissions trading programs.

Book Industrial Voluntary Agreements in Context

Download or read book Industrial Voluntary Agreements in Context written by R. Neal Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of Voluntary Agreements Program Under the Defense Production Act

Download or read book Review of Voluntary Agreements Program Under the Defense Production Act written by United States. Attorney-General and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: