Title :
Green policies and green businesses
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Marketing & Decision Sci., San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
The business environment becomes increasingly competitive. More and more companies are cautious about their environmental performance and willing to fulfill their social responsibilities. In this paper, we propose taxonomy of green policies that are particularly relevant and explicitly targeted at corporate greenhouse gases emissions reduction. The taxonomy includes environmental taxes, tradable emissions permits, conventional taxes, and voluntary approaches. We identified environmental labels as good ways for companies to reveal how green their products are. And we developed an analytical model to explore the relationship between environmental label and company profit.
Keywords :
corporate social responsibility; environmental economics; environmental legislation; government policies; labelling (packaging); pollution control; sustainable development; taxation; company environmental performance; company profit; company social responsibilities; corporate greenhouse gases emission reduction; environmental labels; environmental taxes; green businesses; green policies; green products; tradable emission permits; Air pollution; Carbon tax; Companies; Finance; Fuels; Green products; Meteorology; Carbon footprint; environmental label; environmental policy; greenhouse gas emission; social responsibility; sustainability;
Conference_Titel :
Innovation Conference (SIIC), 2013 Suzhou-Silicon Valley-Beijing International
Conference_Location :
Suzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0338-2
DOI :
10.1109/SIIC.2013.6624163