Publication: Modern Companies, Healthy Environment: Improving Industrial Competitiveness through Potential of Cleaner and Greener Production
Date
2012-07
ISSN
Published
2012-07
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The objective of this report is
two-fold. First, it is to raise awareness of the health and
economic damages of industrial air pollution in key oblasts
and to develop long-term options of improving industrial
competitiveness. The second objective is to synthesize the
results of a pilot benchmarking exercise of selected
industries on natural resource and energy efficiency
improvements, cleaner production and identify options for
cleaner and greener industrial production in Kazakhstan. The
report is structured as follows. Section two motivates the
cleaner production topic by providing some estimates of the
health impacts and economic costs of air pollution in
Kazakhstan. Air pollution is selected because of data
availability, but also because it is one of
Kazakhstan's major environmental priorities. Section
three provides a discussion of the current regulatory
framework that industry faces as well as its limitations.
Section four reviews the results from the pilot benchmarking
exercise among selected industrial firms that were subject
to 'quick-scans' for efficiency and pollution
reduction improvements. Section five gives some examples how
businesses have responded to environmental norms and section
six reviews the major constraints faced by industry in
environmental compliance and clean technology adoption.
Finally, section seven provides some concrete
recommendations in areas that both government and industry
can pursue in achieving greater environmental compliance and
clean technology adoption.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2012. Modern Companies, Healthy Environment: Improving Industrial Competitiveness through Potential of Cleaner and Greener Production. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26811 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”