Green Transformation of Small Businesses: Achieving and Going Beyond Environmental Requirements

Eugene Mazur
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No 47, OECD Environment Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This report aims to help environmental and other competent authorities in OECD countries to promote green business practices among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It analyses different ways to establish environmental regulatory requirements for facilities with low environmental risk (most of which are SMEs). It also examines how to design and apply information and market-based tools to promote compliance with such requirements and adoption of cleaner technologies and good environmental management practices. The report suggests several ways to increase the effectiveness of these promotion tools with respect to the SME community. The report addresses the roles of environmental authorities, local governments, business organisations and financial institutions in the greening of small businesses. It reviews in detail the experience of France, Ireland, Korea, the Netherlands and the UK (England and Wales and Scotland) and draws on examples of several other countries.

Keywords: environmental authorities; environmental compliance; green growth; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K32 K42 L53 M48 O44 O57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-09-20
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