Voluntary Environmental Initiatives: Exploring Key Dimensions of Non-Regulatory Approaches

The role of voluntary environmental initiatives continues to expand. With this expansion comes an increasing need to better understand the nature and workings of these initiatives and their relationship to other policy instruments.

Document Highlights

The case studies highlighted show how these voluntary initiatives vary with respect to environmental objectives, stewardship approaches and sector or industry involved.

This briefing:

• identifies the 12 case studies of voluntary environmental initiatives;
• discusses four key dimensions of these initiatives—motives, efficiency and effectiveness, performance measures and operational characteristics;
• outlines success factors; and
• details considerations in moving forward.