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19 June 2000, Paris

Organised by the Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP)

The Workshop examined the role of environmental policy in stimulating environmental innovation and of innovation policy in enhancing environmental performance for sustainable economic growth and development. It discussed how environmental and innovation policies could be better designed to enhance the development and diffusion of innovations responding to environmental concerns.

The Thematic Workshop on Innovation and the Environment organised under the auspices of the Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) was held on 19 June. Following the Workshop, the Working Group held its 15th Meeting on the 20-21 June.

The programme for the Workshop is available below. Proceedings are published in: Innovation and the Environment.

Secretariat contact: Yukiko Fukasaku, Tel: (33-1) 45 24 18 69; Fax: (33-1) 45 24 97 67.

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Programme

Welcome by Chair:

Sungchul Chung, Korean Delegation to the OECD

Introduction by the Secretariat:

• Innovation and the Environment: The Issues

Session 1: Re-designing Environmental Policies to Stimulate Innovation

• René Kemp, MERIT, Netherlands, Technology Effects of Environmental Policy : An Overview of the Effects of Past Policies and Suggestions for Improvement
• Bengt Johansson, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden, Economic Instruments in Practice: Carbon Tax in Sweden
• Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, United States, Economic Instruments in Practice: US Sulphur Dioxide Emission Permits in the US Electricity Sector
• Hajime Ohta, Executive Counsellor, Keidanren, Japan, The Effectiveness of Voluntary Agreements : The Results of the Second Follow-up to the Keidanren Voluntary Action Plan on the Environment (Global Warming Measures)

Session 2: Leveraging Innovation Policy to Enhance Environmental Performance

• Andrew Dearing, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland, Sustainable Innovation: Drivers and Barriers .
• Vicki Norberg-Bohm, Energy Technology Innovation Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, Beyond the Double Dividend: Public and Private Roles in the Transformation to a Sustainable Industrial Society
• Antero Honkasalo, Environmental Protection in Trade and Industry, Ministry of Environment, Finland, Environmental Cluster Programme
• Hugh Williams, Ecotec and Chair, Energy and Natural Environment Panel, UK Foresight Programme, United Kingdom, Linking the Research Base and the Market through Technology Foresight

Session 3: Panel Discussion

Session 4: Summary and Discussion

Summary by Rapporteur

George Heaton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., United States

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Updated 31 July 2000