OECD Environment Working Papers

ISSN :
1997-0900 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/19970900
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on environmental issues prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal authors are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language English or French with a summary in the other if available.
 

Green Transformation of Small Businesses

Achieving and Going Beyond Environmental Requirements You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Eugene Mazur1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

Publication Date
20 Sep 2012
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No.:
47
Pages
50
DOI
10.1787/5k92r8nmfgxp-en

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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.

Also available in: French
Keywords:
green growth, SMEs, environmental compliance, environmental authorities
JEL Classification:
  • K32: Law and Economics / Other Substantive Areas of Law / Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
  • K42: Law and Economics / Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior / Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
  • L53: Industrial Organization / Regulation and Industrial Policy / Enterprise Policy
  • M48: Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting / Accounting and Auditing / Government Policy and Regulation
  • O44: Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity / Environment and Growth
  • O57: Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth / Economywide Country Studies / Comparative Studies of Countries
  • Q58: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Government Policy