EBJ-OECD Global Environmental Stringency Index |
1. Respondent Information
Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are cooperating on research relating to an assessment of the relative strength of environmental policy or 'environmental stringency' in each country.
The data collected will be used to support research illustrating the linkages between environmental policy and the development of environmental industries, as well as the impacts on innovation, trade and other economic or social factors. OECD's general mission is to support policy reform in its 34 member nations and globally.
Obstacles to international trade in environmental goods and related services are also of great interest to researchers and policymakers alike. A brief question on that topic is therefore included, though the bulk of the survey remains concentrated on the rating of environmental regulatory stringency in each country using a 1 to 7 scale (where 1 stands for very lax and 7 means the country’s environmental policies are among the most stringent in the world).
While the survey will run until August 2014, we would urge you to complete it at your earliest convenience. All responses will be kept strictly confidential and only aggregated results will be used in subsequent analysis. Contact information can be provided for those who would like to see the results and participate more in these kinds of studies.
Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Grant Ferrier of EBI Inc. (grant@ebimailbox.com), the publisher of EBJ, or Jehan Sauvage of the OECD in Paris (jehan.sauvage@oecd.org).
Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please do not hesitate to forward the link to this survey to your colleagues in other regions.
Note on the results: Respondents will all receive summary tables from the survey results, as well as other indicators of environmental regulatory stringency used in economic and analytical models.
Note on completing the survey: If you start the survey and don't complete it, or wish to return at a different time, the data is saved as you go. However if you return and click the link again from the same computer, you may need to 'clear your recent history' or cookies and then pick up in a blank form and enter your responses from the point you left off.
The data collected will be used to support research illustrating the linkages between environmental policy and the development of environmental industries, as well as the impacts on innovation, trade and other economic or social factors. OECD's general mission is to support policy reform in its 34 member nations and globally.
Obstacles to international trade in environmental goods and related services are also of great interest to researchers and policymakers alike. A brief question on that topic is therefore included, though the bulk of the survey remains concentrated on the rating of environmental regulatory stringency in each country using a 1 to 7 scale (where 1 stands for very lax and 7 means the country’s environmental policies are among the most stringent in the world).
While the survey will run until August 2014, we would urge you to complete it at your earliest convenience. All responses will be kept strictly confidential and only aggregated results will be used in subsequent analysis. Contact information can be provided for those who would like to see the results and participate more in these kinds of studies.
Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Grant Ferrier of EBI Inc. (grant@ebimailbox.com), the publisher of EBJ, or Jehan Sauvage of the OECD in Paris (jehan.sauvage@oecd.org).
Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please do not hesitate to forward the link to this survey to your colleagues in other regions.
Note on the results: Respondents will all receive summary tables from the survey results, as well as other indicators of environmental regulatory stringency used in economic and analytical models.
Note on completing the survey: If you start the survey and don't complete it, or wish to return at a different time, the data is saved as you go. However if you return and click the link again from the same computer, you may need to 'clear your recent history' or cookies and then pick up in a blank form and enter your responses from the point you left off.