Intensified Product-orientated Environmental Initiative
Contents
Preface
1 Summary
1.1 The great challenge
1.2 What is a product-orientated environmental initiative?
1.3 Framework and conditions for product initiatives
1.4 Proposals for specific initiatives
2 The environmental policy challenge of a global market with
global growth
2.1 Introduction
2.2 National and global environmental problems
2.3 The environmental challenge
2.4 Basic prerequisites for a product-orientated initiative
3 Product-orientated environmental initiative - the process and
goals
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Product initiatives as a process and a dialogue
3.3 Overall goals for product initiative
4 The products
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Products covered by the product initiative
4.3 Environmental properties of products in a life-cycle
perspective
4.4 Evaluating environmental properties of products
4.5 The potential of environmental improvements of products
4.6 Environmental properties are not absolutely all
5 The market
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The environment as a competitive parameter
5.3 The global market
5.4 The Danish market as a starting point
5.5 The importance of public efforts
5.6 International environment and trade agreements
6 The stakeholders
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Prerequisites for product initiative contributions
6.3 Which stakeholders are central to the product
initiative?
6.4 The consumers
6.5 The trade sector
6.6 Manufacturers of goods and services
6.7 Other stakeholders - consequences to the product
initiative
7 Proposals for specific initiatives
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Background to the choice of instruments and areas of
action
7.3 Presenting goals and behavioural expectations - the
environmental agenda
7.4 Access to knowledge
7.5 Developing a stable market for environmentally sound
products
7.6 Initiatives in three product areas
7.7 Product development support
7.8 Banning the use of selected chemical substances
7.9 National co-ordination
7.10 International efforts
8 References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3