Environmental strategy

Environmental Strategy for the Great Lakes System, Final Report of the Pollutitxi from Land Use Activities Reference Group to the International Joint Commission, International Joint Commission, Windsor, Ontario, 1978,... 

The work of the Investors Environmental Health Network is targeted toward investors and senior executives and focuses on corporate management of product detoxification. From an article published in the journal. Corporate Environmental Strategy International Journal for Sustainable Business, Richard Liroff wrote ... 

Liroff R. (2005). Benchmarking Corporate Management of Safer Chemicals in Consumer Products - A Tool for Investors and Senior Executives. Corporate Environmental Strategy International Journal for Sustainable Business. [Online - accessed 24 April 2007] Available from URL http //www.iehn.org/files/CES%20Benchmarking%20artide.pdf. 

The project partners were the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Okopol -Institute for Environmental Strategies GmbH Hamburg and the Co-operation Office of the German Trade Unions Ass./Universities of Hamburg... 

Dienemann, E. A. and Bacher, S. (1994) In Environmental Strategies Handbook, Kollunu, R. V., Ed. McGraw Hill, New York. 

Unlike in the original RoHS Directive, the European Commission now has to take into account the aims of the Lisbon strategy so that development of an environmental strategy also considers growth and employment. Another fundamental change is that RoHS substance restrictions would be imposed only if there is an unacceptable risk to human health and the environment, whereas previously it was based only on the precautionary principle. 

Conclusions and Wrap-up by the Rapporteurs Asian Rapporteur Mr. Taka Hiraishi (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies) European Rapporteur Mr. Paul Kaye (ENDS Europe Daily)... 

The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) is a platform for dialogue and debate on sustainable development and the environment issues in Asia and Europe. The series is organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF-Indonesia), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES-Japan) with support of the government of Japan, the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia (Sida-SENSA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 

Other environmental strategies include eliminating lead capsules by replacing them with a beeswax stopper. Fetzer s organic range of wines called Bonterra is packaged in recycled glass bottles, with labels made out of kenaf (paperless hemp), printed with soy-based ink. 

W. Wehrmeyer, S. Erler and G. Johnstone, From Processes to Products Regulation, Competitiveness and the Future of EHS, Final Report June 2004, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 2004. 

This concept of having value at stake on social and environmental issues is broad and more powerful than the more traditional view that the main financial import of environmental issues is as potential liabilities. There have been significant efforts made to improve corporate disclosure of material environmental liabilities,25 and the increased emphasis on the identification and disclosure of risks under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act should drive this further. Value at stake includes these potential environmental liabilities as well as the opportunities and competitive advantage that can come from the right environmental strategies. 

It would be presumptuous to attempt to describe the many different ways in which chemical companies have created significant shareholder value through environmental strategies.28 My purpose here is to offer a few examples that illustrate the... 

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