Inducements vs. Sanctions

I feel that, for my policy issue, sanctions would be better than inducements. With inducements the people gaining the benefits are generally the people doing harm in the first place. If major companies were given rewards for polluting less than they were, or cutting down less rain forests, then they are being rewarded for something they should not have been doing in the first place. There need to be consequences for their actions, not benefits for fixing them. Another issue is raised from this as well. Where would the benefits come from? If it is money, where is the government going to get enough money to pay major companies to lessen their rate of pollution when we are already in major debt.