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Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest challenges we face in our global community.
Organisations are conducting business within complex legal structures, while stakeholder demands are increasing and environmental performance expectations are becoming more onerous. To operate effectively in this environment organisations are now required to demonstrate proactive management of the environmental impacts of their business activities. Effective environmental management involves incorporating environmentally responsible practises into everyday business processes.
An Environmental Management System is a framework, which can be integrated with existing business processes to effectively identify, measure, manage and control environmental impacts and hence environmental risks. An Environmental Management System also establishes the means for improving performance and moving towards environmental sustainability through best practise such as ISO14001.
It's an option that any business can elect to undertake, and in fact from what many people on here are saying, they are already on the right track, to some degree.
ISO 14001 is a good way to demonstrate your organisations environmental credentials, and commitment to continual improvement of your environmental impact.
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