VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AS A WAY TO STIMULATE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THEIR CONDITIONSVoluntary Agreements • December 2nd, 2013
Contract Type FiledDecember 2nd, 2013Numerous governments have adopted innovative policy instruments to deal with important environmental policy challenges. Various forms of negotiated instruments may offer the potential to improve on environmental performance beyond what regulation alone can accomplish. Dutch covenants, which represent negotiated agreements with sectors of industry as targets of behavioral change in terms of mitigation of pollution, waste minimization and sustainable products and processes, provide a useful sample from which evidence can be drawn regarding the determinants of success.