An overview of Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory program as a pollution control policy tool

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1097-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Johnston Edwards ◽  
Tony R. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Pollution Control Policy

scholarly journals The Origins and Practice of Emissions Trading

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh S. Gorman ◽  
Barry D. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Control ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Pollution Control Policy

An important development in the field of environmental policy has been the growing acceptance and use of emissions trading as a cost-effective means to meet and maintain environmental quality standards. In the first half of the twentieth century, emissions trading programs not only would have been seen as unnecessary; they would have been inconceivable. The legal, bureaucratic, and technological infrastructure necessary to support such systems simply did not exist. Furthermore, most people did not see the release of pollutioncausing contaminants into the shared environment as transactions to be measured and monitored. Today, the use of emissions trading programs as a policy tool both reflects and represents the dramatic changes in pollution control policy that have since occurred.

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