Environmental Policy Instruments and Eco-innovation

Market-based Environmental Policy Instruments

Trade and Environmental Policy Instruments and Reforms

This chapter first presents and summarises results from recent analytical literature, explaining the implications of different policy menus to abate pollution in a small, polluted, competitive economy opening to world trade. This situation is consistent with the stylised facts of many developing economies evolving in a global marketplace and with emerging environmental concerns. The context of ...

Designing Instruments for Resource and Environmental Policy

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The need for policy instruments 3. The Range of Policy Options 4. The Selection and Design of Policy Instruments 4.1. Efficiency with heterogeneous abatement costs 4.2. Difficult monitoring of emissions (but complementarity with products) 4.3. Efficiency with heterogeneous damage costs 4.4. Uncertainty in damage costs and efficiency 4.5. Inter-temporal efficiency wit...

The impact of environmental policy instruments on innovation : A review of energy and automotive industry studies

Various types of policy instruments have been implemented to reduce local and global emissions, but the impact on innovation of different instruments has received less attention. This paper reviews empirical studies of the innovation impact of four main types of policy instruments in two high-emitting sectors. The conclusions are threefold. (1) Policy plays a key role for the development and di...

Environmental and Energy Informatics: Polish Approaches in Eco-innovation

The goal of this paper is to present eco-innovation implementation in Poland and in some European countries. I assess factor influencing on ecoinnovation in small medium enterprises. Both current and expected energy and material prices are particularly important for pushing firms to reduce pollution, decrease hazardous substances and increase recyclability of products. Cost savings are an impor...