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Pro-active Policies and Business Strategies for
Strengthening Corporate Environmental Management
in Developing Asia
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| The role of business is critical towards attaining sustainable development. The Business and the Environment Project aims to gain understanding of the various relationships between corporations and the world at large, and find ways to encourage good environmental management. The overall goal of the Project is to suggest a pro-active policy framework that can further strengthen corporate environmental management (CEM) activities, through examining the strengths and deficiencies of CEM practices in developing Asia. |
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The objectives of the research tasks are:
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To outline the current status of innovative policy tools, public-private partnerships and market based instruments that concern CEM in high impact sectors. |
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To demonstrate, discuss and select pathways that could be implemented as strategies for improved eco-effectiveness by companies of different sizes. |
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To summarise the advantages of those pathways, outline the major challenges and design an enabling policy framework, which is responsive to business needs. |
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To motivate key decision makers to pursue the issue by establishing appropriate dialogue processes and creating a platform to share information on good practices and policy experiences. |
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| Review of industry-related policies regarding corporate environmental management |
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| Research includes examining a set of key innovative policy tools, market-based instruments and public-policy private partnerships in Asia that have evolved for natural resource protection and management in the region. The main focus is placed on tenable policy approaches that bolster CEM measures, reduce emissions, water pollution and waste at individual company, group-company and sector levels. To strengthen CEM, deficiencies in public-private partnerships that use incentives/disincentives, such as voluntary standards and non-compliance fees, need to be pinpointed to effect positive changes in such areas.
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International Workshop 2007 on Corporate
Environmental Management, Kobe, Japan |
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| Analysis of supplier technical assistance approaches |
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This component studies the impact, within certain sectors, of technical assistance, pressures and market mechanisms on CEM, involving two research approaches: 1) the business environment linking the company, local community and government, concerning factors such as financial subsidies and infrastructure, and 2) business to business interaction and global supply chain environmental management (SCEM). To maximise SCEM in this context, case analysis will be used to reveal the factors leading to supplier engagement, as well as promising policy measures.
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| Leveraging environmental performance information
for eco-effectiveness in large-sized businesses |
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| In parallel with the component above, this activity concerns the factors and policy mechanisms bringing about eco-effectiveness in large-sized businesses. Central to this understanding is the role of corporate environmental information disclosure schemes, and their use in Asia. Research includes field study collection of good industry examples on disclosure of corporate-level innovations in increased energy efficiency, reduced waste and controlled water pollution. Analysis is also carried out for improved environmental conditions, economic realities and social benefits of adopted environmental performance disclosure schemes. The benefits of information disclosure to companies are examined based on three premises: improved understanding of company operations and cost reductions; improved corporate-community relations; and use by regulators to seek out non-compliers. |
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There is an imperative for high impact sectors, e.g. food process industry, to have a blueprint for eco-effectiveness |
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| Cross-analysis of pro-CEM in developing Asia |
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| This component involves application of research findings from the above three components in developing a comprehensive pro-active policy framework at the sectoral level to both improve and increase the efficiency of existing policy and elaborating on more effective instruments that could spread the uptake of selected pathways and other integrated good corporate environmental management model(s) in selected Asian countries. To elicit practical steps towards improved CEM, analysis will take place of feedback from business associations, local groups and policy makers for their recommendations.
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