ADM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Emissions Trading, Product Design, Environmentalism
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Environmental issues confront virtually all aspects of the corporation, from the input of resources to the manufacturing process and from workplace conditions through to the way products are packaged and sold. Commons: any resource used as though it belongs to all. Environmental ethic: the set of values or principles that govern a corporation"s practices relating to the environment. Sustainable development: development ensuring that the use of resources and the impact on the environment today does not damage prospects for the use of resources or the environment by future generations. Business sustainable development: adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and its stakeholders today while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future . Government departments and agencies: environment canada, canadian council of ministers of environment, national roundtable of the environment and the economy, canadian environmental assessment act agency, canadian environmental protection act, canadian environmental assessment act, kyoto.