When and why does it pay to be green? : Billets verts pour des entreprises vertes?

Lanoie, Paul

The objective whereby firms could offset the costs of of this paper is not to show that a reduction of sustaining the environment with higher profits. [...] The owners of the factory and the customers for its goods do not have to bear the full costs of the pollutants that come out of its smokestacks. [...] For each of the seven possibilities not necessarily to identified above, we provide a discussion of the mechanisms an increase in involved and a systematic view of the empirical evidence available. [...] Countries have taken a taken a variety of variety of approaches to the greening of public procurement, and approaches to the examples of GPP in the United Kingdom, and the United States include: greening of public procurement. [...] In May 2001, The OECD environment ministers adopted the Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century, in which there is a recommendation “to improve the environmental performance of public procurement practices.” It seems that most firms can actually obtain a better access to certain markets via an improvement of their environmental performance.

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