Voluntary agreements with corporations are all the rage these days, but a new book proposes that while good voluntary environmental measures well carried out
can be better than regulations, most don’t work. They cost more to implement and create more delays than well-planned performance based regulations.
The book, Voluntary Initiatives, The New Politics of Corporate Greening includes articles by Canadian leaders on the subject and analyzes the Forest Stewardship Council,
the Whitehorse Mining Initiative, and the DOFASCO Steel Covenant signed with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Environment Canada. Dr. Robert Gibson, the Editor, writes, “Government enthusiasm for the concept has coincided suspiciously with the rise of political devotion to deficit reduction.”
Contact: rbgibson@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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