The presentations address various issues such as:

- asymmetric information between the government or an environmental agency and the polluting industry or the supplier of an exhaustible resource ;
- the role played by the government both in setting a market for tradeable emissions permits and designing environmental taxation ;
- government’s commitment to reduce polluting emissions and provide firms with credible incentives to invest in R&D ;
- the regulation of polluting activities, risky activities and the encouragement of carbon offsets such a forestation ;
- the emergence of an eco-industry due to the growing concern for the environment ;
- the difficulty of international cooperation for the environment.