Measuring sustainability and environmental performance

This lecture aims to provide an insight on indicators to be used in a multi-criteria approach to sustainable development, through :

• Characterisation of the attitudes of industry towards the environment and towards environmental regulations.

• Identification of the ways through which strong environmental regulation can encourage innovation for cleaner processes, products or industrial systems.

• Presentation of a set of indicators and index of environmental performance.

• Discussion of the analytical framework proposed by the European commission to assess the sustainability impacts of international trade measure.

• Discussion of aggregate index versus multi-criteria approaches.

Speaker

Dr. Patrick Criqui, Director of the Laboratoire d’Economie de la Production et de l’Intégration Internationale (LEPII), UMR 5252- University of Grenoble – CNRS, France

Organisers

Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry.

Venue

Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall, French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, Saint Louis Street, Pondicherry - 605 001

Time

4.30 pm