GCM 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Life-Cycle Assessment, Forest Stewardship Council, Carbon Dioxide Equivalent
30 Jan 2020
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An environmental management system (ems) is a set of processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency. Helps an organization address its regulatory demands in a systematic and cost-effective manner. An ems can also help address non-regulated issues, such as energy conservation, and can promote stronger operational control and employee stewardship. Moves you from reactive mode to proactive mode, thinking ahead and anticipating events. Answering questions in advance is to your advantage. A good ems is not just a shelf document but is a living document, one that goes on and on. An ems helps with planning, implementation, assessment and corrective action, over a period of time. The triple bottom line (tbl) is a framework or theory that recommends companies to focus on social and environmental concerns just as they do on profits. The tbl believes that instead of one bottom line, there should be three:
