Environmental Finance and Socially Responsible Business in Russia: Legal and Practical Trends

ISBN-13: 9789067043304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 372 str.

Wybe Th Douma; Fiona M. Mucklow

Opis

This examination of the legal and social context of business operations in Russia focuses on environmental and social aspects.

Spis treści

Environmental Finance and Socially Responsible Business in Russia — An Introduction.- Environmental Finance and Socially Responsible Business in Russia — An Introduction.- Overview and First Comments.- The Russian Economy in Perspective.- Environmentally and Socially Responsible Business in Russia: Why Bother?.- The Importance of Socially Responsible Investing to Promote Sustainable Investments in Russia.- Legal and Policy Perspectives.- Russian Environmental Law — an Overview for Businesses.- Russian Ngo’s and Public Participation — Legal and Practical Perspectives.- Harmonisation of Russian Environmental Standards with EU Legislation.- Mechanisms to Promote Green Business in Russia.- Environmental Policy and the International Competitiveness of the Russian Economy.- Environmental Education and Capacity Building in Russia.- Green Public Procurement: Using European Experiences in Russia.- Can Russia Become A ‘Green Investor’ in Southern Africa?.- the EBRD and Russia: Stimulating European Principles for the Environment.- Practical Trends and Synergies.- Involving Russian Business in Kyoto.- The Changing Context for Investment in Green Projects in Russia.- Russian National Pollution Abatement Facility: Practice and Results.- Environmental Management Systems in Russia: The Delayed Wave.- Renewable Energy Opportunities on the Kola Peninsula.- Investments in Murmansk Oblast and Pomor Region — Some Reflections.- Practical Trends and Synergies.- Developing Corporate Social Responsibility in RUSSIA: The Role of the United Nations Development Programme.- Russia: Corporate Social Responsibility in a Postsocialist State.- Socially Responsible Business: Helping Children in Russia.

Blurb

This book focuses on the legal and practical aspects of environmental finance and socially responsible business practices in Russia since the 1990s. Related publications to date tend to give a rather one-sided and negative picture. The authors in this book, however, provide a more positive and balanced outlook. Over half of them are from Russia, and most of the non-Russian authors have worked there extensively. As experts in their respective fields, they discuss a myriad of separate, but interrelated issues from an economic, legal or practical perspective.

Topics include environmental law, pollution abatement, climate change and the Kyoto Protocol, renewable energy opportunities, NPAF, TACIS and EBRD projects, corporate social responsibility, environmental management systems, integration of EU environmental standards and adherence to the European Principles of Environmental Protection, environmental education and philanthropy.

Giving a valuable introductory insight into the progress of environmental and socially responsible business practices in Russia, this book is essential reading for investors, academics, practitioners and those interested in sustainable development in Russia.

Wybe Th. Douma, is a senior researcher in European Law and International Trade Law at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut. He worked in Russia on several projects, notably as senior legal expert for the first TACIS ’Harmonisation of environmental standards’ project.

Fiona M. Mucklow is a research associate at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and an English solicitor with extensive expertise in finance law and international environmental law in Russia.