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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence

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  • Venkatachalam Anbumozhi

    (Asian Development Bank Institute)

  • Mari Kimura

    (Asian Development Bank Institute)

  • Kumiko Isono

    (Asian Development Bank Institute)

Abstract

This paper reviews selected initiatives taken by Asian countries to comply with emerging global sustainability standards, reporting, and management systems, and tracks the response of Asian businesses to global environmental concerns, examines market based innovations including new regulations that augmented corporate excellence, and identifies future directions for business that lead low carbon society. It recommends governments and business to join forces in supporting low carbon initiatives, drawing upon market mechanisms through reconfiguring national environmental policies and strategies.

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  • Venkatachalam Anbumozhi & Mari Kimura & Kumiko Isono, 2011. "Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence," ADBI Working Papers 335, Asian Development Bank Institute.
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    1. Mark Stoughton & Anbumozhi Venkatachalam, 2010. "Green Services and Emergence and Recovery from the Global Economic Slowdown in Developing Asian Economies," Energy Working Papers 22820, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    2. Judith M. Dean & Mary E. Lovely & Hua Wang, 2017. "Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Mary E Lovely (ed.), International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance, chapter 9, pages 155-167, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    3. Kaliappa Kalirajan & VenkatachalamAnbumozhi & Kanhaiya Singh, 2010. "Measuring the Environmental Impacts of Changing Trade Patterns on the Poor," Trade Working Papers 22727, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
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    Keywords

    climate change initiatives; global sustainability standards; low carbon initiatives; environmental p;
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    JEL classification:

    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other
    • Q30 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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