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Reporting to stakeholders
Management systems
5.1 Eco-management systems
a voluntary initiative designed to improve companies’ environmental
performance
requires participating organisations to regularly produce a public environmental
statement that reports on their environmental performance
accuracy and reliability is independently checked by an environmental verifier to
give credibility and recognition to that information
requires participating organisations to implement an environmental management
system (EMS).
There are four key elements of the scheme:
Legal requirement.
Dialogue/reporting.
Improved environmental performance.
Employee involvement.
5.2 ISO 14000
a series of standards dealing with environmental management and a supporting
audit programme
the ISO formulates the specifications for an EMS
EMAS compliance is based on ISO 14000 recognition – although many
organisations comply with both standards
focuses on internal systems although it also provides assurance to stakeholders
of good environmental management
to gain accreditation an organisation must meet a number of requirements
regarding its environmental management
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