Clean Air Strategic Alliance
Clean Air Strategic Alliance
Tools

This page contains only a listing of the potential P2/CI tools and strategies that can be used. For an brief explanation of each tool refer to Appendix F of CASA's pollution prevention/continuous improvement project team final report.

Legislative

  • Regulatory backstop
  • Mandated P2 plans
  • Economic instruments
  • Tax incentives for good performers
  • Preferential tax treatment for companies that pursue P2
  • Emissions trading
  • Green procurement
  • Liabilities for senior executives
  • Review of licences
  • Approval conditions to implement P2

Voluntary initiatives and partnerships

  • Voluntary initiatives
  • Personal P2 plans
  • Codes of practice
  • Partnerships
  • Industry stewardship initiatives

Education 

  • Education to alter public behaviour and create a societal shift
  • Study tours for companies
  • P2 symposium
  • P2 training for corporate and institutional staff

Characteristics/components of P2/CI tools and strategies 

  • Geographic boundaries
  • Cross fertilization
  • Holistic approach
  • Thinking “outside the box”
  • Paradigm shift
  • Flexibility
  • Employee participation in generating ideas
  • Look for micro or macro solutions, think globally act locally, energy pods
  • Inspirational appeal

Design/implementation

  • Industrial ecology
  • Sectoral pollution prevention plans
  • Coordinated, integrated planning among players in a given area
  • Awards and recognition
  • Positive behaviour is appropriately rewarded
  • Integrate reporting with existing programs
  • Issue challenges
  • Green procurement
  • Sectoral source requirements
  • Transportation demand management
  • Eco-efficient communities initiative
  • Effective design
  • Recycle, reuse, reduce
  • Garbage fair
  • Demonstration projects