A new study, "Instruments of Change: Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development", has been written for UNEP by Dr. Theodore Panayotou of the Harvard Institute for International Development. It comprehensively examines how the proper uses of market-based incentive systems and improved institutional arrangements can offer policy-makers, especially in developing and transitional economies, a menu of effective economic tools in their efforts to protect the environment and conserve natural resources. It cover tradeable permits, user fees, pollution charges, subsidies, environmental taxes, fines, among many others.
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