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The role of environmental management systems in the Canadian Voluntary Climate and Challenge Registry

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  • Keith Brouhle
  • Donna Ramirez Harrington

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This study evaluates the Canadian Voluntary Climate and Challenge Registry (VCR), an important policy in Canada's approach to climate change during the 1990s. First, we relate the set of practices prescribed under the VCR to the well-established Plan-Do-Check-Act framework of environmental management systems (EMSs). We then examine VCR adoption and find that firms with past experience with management systems and firms in provinces with different legal, economic and institutional factors were more likely to adopt VCR. We do not find, however, EMS adopters under the VCR had significantly different GHG releases than non-adopters in the immediate years after the VCR programme ended.

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  • Keith Brouhle & Donna Ramirez Harrington, 2014. "The role of environmental management systems in the Canadian Voluntary Climate and Challenge Registry," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(8), pages 1145-1168, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:57:y:2014:i:8:p:1145-1168
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.787055
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    1. Jeroen van der Heijden, 2020. "Understanding voluntary program performance: Introducing the diffusion network perspective," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 14(1), pages 44-62, January.
    2. Xiang Bi & Madhu Khanna, 2017. "Inducing pollution prevention adoption: effectiveness of the 33/50 voluntary environmental program," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(12), pages 2234-2254, December.

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