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Wisconsin Style: New Approaches to Regulatory Innovation
Partnership seeks to foster better environmental practices around the world
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- Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance
One of the outcomes of the January 31, 2005, Environmental Law in a Connected World Conference is a partnership with the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance.
Many of the January conference participants reconvened at MSWG's annual workshop in June 2005 in Grand Rapids, Mich. There they discussed sustainability, business value and policy innovations.
Participants also explored the environmental practices of the North American supply chain; how to report on sustainability to employees, customers and taxpayers; foreign owners' influence on a firm's environmental culture; voluntary reporting on greenhouse gases; and tools for community energy and environmental improvement.
"This partnership between the Wisconsin Style: New Approaches to Regulatory Innovation research project and the Multi-State Working Group brings together academics, business representatives, policymakers and environmentalists to look at new ways of thinking in relation to environmental regulation," says Terry Shelton, outreach director for the L Follette School of Public Affairs, which is carrying out the Wisconsin Style investigation under the supervision of Professor Graham Wilson.
"The give and take of the Grand Rapids workshop had people learning from each other," Shelton added. "Graduate students from China were able to talk with regulators from Colorado about what does and doesn't work."
Reportage from MSWG's annual workshop
Building bridges across ocean's: China's role in a sustainable world
Bringing power to the people: a journalist's view
Environmentalism: death or rebirth? The debate rages on
Pushing the paradigm limits: metagovernance and the environmental movement