EEPSEA Annual Conference 2020

The 2020 Annual Conference of the Economy & Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) will be partial-virtually organized between December 09 and 11 in 2020 to discuss about…

Date: Wednesday 9 December — Friday 11 December, 2020
Location: Partially Virtual

Do voluntary environmental management systems improve Environmental performance? Evidence from waste management by Kenyan firms.

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
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We examine whether the adoption of global voluntary environmental management systems - United Nations Global Compact and ISO 14001 - lead to more effective environmental performance. Previous studies have presented inconclusive findings of voluntary environmental management systems on environmental performances. Possible reasons for conflicting results are the influence of observable and unobservable factors that affect environmental performance as well as the use of different measures of environmental performance indicators.

Waste