Economic instruments in chemicals policy : past experiences and prospects for future use / Patrik Soderholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Söderholm, Patrik, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemicals--Government policy--Europe.

Chemicals.

Environmental policy--Economic aspects--Europe.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report investigates the potential for increased use of economic instruments, not the least taxes and charges, in chemcials policy. It provides a conceptual discussion of the role of different market-based instruments in controlling pollution based on chemicals production and use, and outlines a comprehensive overview and analysis of the European experiences of taxes and charges in chemicals policy during the last decades. A final chapter evaluates a set of carefully selected economic instruments targeted at specific chemical compounds and products. The cases have been chosen so as to illustrate different types of challenges in relying more extensively on economic instruments in chemicals policy, and they include the use of: (a) different types of two-stroke oils; (b) the substance nonylphenol (NP) and its ethoxylates (NPEs), which break down into NPs; and (c) ethylene glycol. The report has been commissioned by the Working Group on Environment and Economics under the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Contents:

""Content""; ""Preface""; ""Summary ""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Background and motivation""; ""1.2 Objectives of the report""; ""1.3 The Nordic approach to chemicals regulation""; ""1.4 Scope and definitions""; ""1.5 Approach and outline of the report""; ""2. The political economy of environmental management in chemicals policy""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Key characteristics of chemical pollutants""; ""2.3 The economics of environmental management of chemicals use""; ""2.4 The politics of environmental management of chemicals use""

""2.5 Economic incentives, information and signalling effects""""3. Experiences of environmental taxes in European chemicals policy""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 The experience of fertilizer taxation in Europe""; ""3.3 The Nordic experience of pesticide taxation""; ""3.4 The Nordic approaches to the taxation of hazardous chemicals""; ""3.5 Conclusions and lessons for the future use of environmental taxes and fees ""; ""4. The scope for economic instruments in controlling chemicals use: three case studies""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 The case of Nonylphenolethoxylates (NPEs) ""

""4.3 The case of two-stroke oils""""4.4 The case of 1,2-ethanediol (ethylene glycol)""; ""5. Conclusions and implications""; ""References""; ""Sammanfattning (summary in Swedish)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

923311726