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Education and Learning for Sustainable Consumption

Environmental Requirements for Industrial Permitting

Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry's environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have...

The Use of Voluntary Agreements in Japan: an Initial Survey

This survey report gives priorities to the review of traditional pollution control agreements as they have proven record of implementation over more than thirty years. A review of the new approach based on voluntary action plans is made in a parallel report of the case study for Japan.

The Use of Unilateral Agreements in Japan: Voluntary Action Plans of Industries Against Global Warming

This report was prepared by Mr. Hidefumi Imura, professor at the Institute of Environmental Systems, Kyushu University (Japan), in the context of the OECD survey on the use of voluntary approaches in environmental policy.

Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policy: An Assessment

This book provides a systematic analysis of the different types of voluntary approaches, their economic characteristics, their role and effectiveness.

Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Protection in the European Union

This report is a synthesis of the existing literature on the use of voluntary approaches in the EU. Its aim is to portray the use of voluntary approaches in the Member States and to identify both their common characteristics and those that separate them. The report relies mainly on four studies: a quantitative and qualitative inventory of voluntary agreements in the European Union (EU) by the Directorate General for Industry (DGIII)

The Use of Unilateral Agreements in the United States: the Responsible Care Initiative

This report was prepared by Ms. Janice Mazurek, an environmental policy consultant in Washington DC, in the context of the OECD survey on the use of voluntary approaches in environmental policy.

The Use of Voluntary Agreements in the United States: an Initial Survey

This is the final version of the report prepared by Ms. Janice Mazurek, an environmental policy consultant in Washington DC, in the context of the OECD survey on the use of voluntary approaches in environmental policy.

Final Guidance Document for Distinguishing Waste from Non-Waste [ENV/EPOC/WMP(98)1/REV1]

This paper was submitted to the Delegates of the WMPG at the April 1998 meeting for consideration. The paper provides guidance for distinguishing wastes from non-wastes and outlines the remaining unresolved contentious issues.

The economics of climate change, EO63 ch.7

Chapter 7 of the OECD Economic Outlook No. 63. The issue of climate change is the subject of renewed interest, in large part owing to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol on 10 December 1997.