Environmental Public-Private Partnership: Introduction
Environmental Public-Private Partnership to Mitigate Climate Change and Rejuvenate the Environment
- Existential urgency to mitigate climate change and reverse pollution impacts
- New framework and platform to mediate and promulgate negotiated regulations
- Use of “principled compromises”(1) for an effective negotiating process
- Contractual agreements to protect the implementation of each iteration of regulations
- Industries’ benefit: each iteration of negotiated regulations generates a competitive edge
Introduction
The accelerating environmental destruction that the world currently faces is partially the result of flawed design and implementation of government regulations, as well as many industries’ resistance to governmental action. These dynamics let runaway pollution lead to climate change and dying ecosystems.
If no global action is taken urgently, the ultimate victim will likely be humanity. Indeed, we are now in the same position as when the “MAD” doctrine became a reality: it was assumed –wished- that nuclear war would not happen because its escalation implied humanity’s total annihilation. Similarly, should greenhouse gas emissions and pollution continue at their current rates, then the regulatory status quo and current rollbacks in the US may imply mass extinction.
To avoid the present anthropogenic ecocide, environmental regulations must be designed in a way that ensures their actual implementation. Including and advancing economic development preempts industry resistance. The triad of regulations, technology, and polluting industries must collaborate using a fundamental sustainability principle: businesses, the public, and the earth must be healthy and thriving for each and all to last.
The Environmental Public-Private Partnership (EPPP) proposes the formation of a platform to initiate wide-ranging consultations with all stakeholders, and the formation of a new structure to mediate the negotiations and support a dynamic calendar of regulatory iterations.
For the process to be effective and stimulate the innovative preemption of pollution, government agencies must be cognizant of each industry’s technologies, processes, and challenges. The multi-stakeholder consultations that will drive the development of regulations must divulge the supporting data (public health, eco-systems, industry externalities), include a timetable, as well as “use it or lose it” seats at the negotiating tables. A beneficial byproduct of informed and collaborative regulations is to incentivize innovation that provides market advantages to countries and regional intergovernmental or trade organizations.
The EPPP’s goal is a win for all stakeholders, and a collective win: a healthy Earth nurtures humanity, a healthier public is happier and more stable, and thriving businesses feed healthy economies thanks to evolving technologies and sustainable resources.
Philip Lajaunie
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