Encouraging Beyond Compliance Behavior

Abstract

Provides an overview of Ontario's Managing the Environment report and their Beyond Compliance initiative. <br> <br> The Managing the Environment Report was commissioned to provide the government with an independent review of best practices used by other jurisdictions to meet current environmental challenges and execute their various management responsibilities. <br> <br> The Beyond Compliance initiative asked participating companies to sign a cooperative agreement to commit to specific beyond compliance reductions in emissions of priority pollutants over a given period of time. The central purpose of cooperative agreements is to differentiate leading companies from those that are merely at compliance or out of compliance. Participating companies receive incentives like technical assistance, enhanced comprehensive site-wide approval, reporting and monitoring study, greater regulatory certainty, use of recognized banner on letterhead, web site and communications recognition, participation in further development, and industry roundtables.