environmental risk Articles
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The risk-effective sustainability of policies: the small business credit environment in Korea
Current ecological or environmental risks, such as air pollution, are usually analysed in an economic system. Existing studies show that small businesses are exposed to environmental risks and thus need to be supported by public financing for the risk-effective sustainability of regional economic performance. However, some critics argue that the acceptable performance may result from ...
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Benefits of ISO14001 certification in the Republic of Macedonia
ISO14001 is an international management system with main goal to help all types of organisations in improving their environmental performance. ISO14001 is a relatively new security system in Macedonia. This study presents the experiences of managers about ISO14001 implementation, obtained through the survey in a sample of industrial firms. Most ISO14001 certified firms are small or medium–sized ...
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Transfer Your Environmental Risks to a Third Party
Remediation of contaminated sites often is costly and time-consuming, diverting scarce corporate resources from a company’s core operations. Moreover, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and recent Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board rules and standards governing accounting for and reporting of environmental liabilities (e.g., FIN 47 Accounting for Conditional Asset ...
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Green financing in Bangladesh: challenges and opportunities – a descriptive approach
Financial Institutions (FIs), the key constituent for the development of a country, can improve their service level along with enhanced social responsibility through the practice of ‘green financing’. Initiatives have been taken to practice green financing throughout the economy covering banks and other non-bank financial institutions in Bangladesh. This qualitative study aims to bring out the ...
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Managing uncertainty in environmental decision-making: the risky business of establishing a relationship between science and law
Government institutions, courts and administrative tribunals have been entrusted with making critical decisions concerning environmental risks. The nature of these decisions and their underlying uncertainty inevitably involve reliance upon opinion evidence from environmental scientists. This analysis begins with a review of the evolution of scientific expert opinion as an evidentiary input to ...
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Federal Government Agency Increases Recycling Revenue while Reducing Impact to Internal Resources - Case Study
e-Cycle is a premier mobile-device recycling company that partners with leading corporations and large government agencies to securely recycle their smartphones and tablets. With a focus on the key areas of concern for asset managers, e-Cycle specializes in mitigating data security risks, upholding environmental compliance, and offering logistical support. ...
By e-Cycle LLC
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Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS): opportunities and risks for insurance companies
Environmental audits were designed on the EC level in Brussels with the declared objective of promoting continuous improvement of the environmental performance of industrial companies. The audit for the time being is a voluntary activity by firms. Hence, it is important that there are incentives to participate. One such incentive is the exploitation of a successful audit for marketing purposes, ...
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Mercury mobility and availability in highly contaminated solid wastes from a chlor–alkali plant
This article suggests an approach of sustainable development in Cuba based on the environmental impact assessment of mercurial sludge generated by a chlor–alkali Cuban plant. It consists of a study of mercury mobility and availability in the sludge samples using sequential extraction procedure. High values of total mercury content (2320 ± 40 mg/kg) in the sludge sample as well as in the toxicity ...
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European Academy of Management activities on energy and environment risk management in Central and Eastern Europe
The article explains the beginning of EMA cooperation with CEE countries after the transition of their government systems and deals with specific energy and environmental solutions, which have caused a substantive increase in uncertainty degree in relevant decision making processes. Evaluations of the Polish experience have a decisive part in this respect. An important increase of exchange of ...
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EHS governance: Responding to crisis at Ashland
When Ashland 'got religion' in 1988, it provoked serious and valuable reform to rebuild public confidence that improved performance and instilled a culture of environmental responsibility in the organization. THE BEGINNING January 2, 1988, is the day that some people say that Ashland 'got religion.' I will never forget the news flash on CNN that an oil spill had occurred on the Monongahela ...
By AHC Group
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An empirical index to evaluate the sustainability of mining projects
This paper describes a new experimental index (the Project Evaluation Index (PEI)), defined to evaluate mining projects. The methodology is based on the use of cash flow charts to calculate the net values of investment projects. The proposal is to apply this methodology not only to economic aspects but also to the social situation, in addition to environmental and associated risks, and creating ...
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U.S. securities and exchange commission issues guidance - when companies must report climate change risks
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally put years of public outcry and speculation to rest with the release of an interpretive guidance document explaining how publicly traded companies are expected to assess and disclose business risks associated with climate change. The Commission voted 3-2 in favor of the guidance document that formally explains when, and to what extent, ...
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Port risk management and Public Private Partnerships: factors relating to risk allocation and risk sustainability
Ports are complex operations involving government and private-sector partners in creating economic benefits and in identifying, managing and absorbing economic, environmental and security risks. Allocation and assessment of risks is necessitated and facilitated by the diversity of organisations involved. Allocation of the cost of risks among the partners or its transfer to outside agencies ...
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Sustainable development footprint: a framework for assessing sustainable development risks and opportunities in time and space
This paper elaborates a framework, the sustainable development footprint, that can be used to assess progress in sustainable development in space and time. The framework views sustainability as consisting of the entire stock of its capital (natural and derived) and the rate of use of this stock to develop human (or other types) capital relative to the rates of regeneration of its capital stocks. ...
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Toxic Chemicals in Toys and Children’s products: Limitations of Current Responses and Recommendations for Government and Industry
The company World Environmental Regulatory Compliance Solutions (The WERCS) has developed a tool called the GreenWERCS Chemical Screening Tool that evaluates chemical products such as paints and cleaning products for human and environmental health risks and scores products on this basis. The WERCS keeps formulation data confidential but provides retailers with information on chemical hazards. In ...
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The Value of Sustainability Software
Through sustainability reporting, your organization is empowered to make responsible, data-driven decisions in order to reduce its carbon emissions on the environment. Managing your company's sustainability progress means keeping up with compliance requirements and improving its social and environmental record. Ultimately, you want to reduce potential hazards and risk, create efficient ...
By EHS Insight
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New FTSE indices help investors track climate change risks
FTSE launched new indices that rate the carbon strategies based on their exposure to climate change-related risks, reports Envido. FTSE Group this week launched new indices designed to help investors track firms" ability to manage climate change risks. The launch follows the BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico that tossed the spotlight on institutional investors" careless approach to environmental ...
By Vital Energi
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Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores and the level of disclosure on climate change related activities: an empirical investigation of the FTSE 100 companies
This paper attempts to link Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores with the actual level of disclosure as published in the UK FTSE 100 companies' sustainability reports. By investigating the level of disclosure on a range of climate change related activities, the findings suggest that disclosure by the top UK companies reveals a considerable awareness that climate change has become a theme of ...
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Evolution of the sewage treatment plant model SimpleTreat: Use of realistic biodegradability tests in probabilistic model simulations
Given the large number of chemicals under regulatory scrutiny, models play a crucial role in the screening phase of the environmental risk assessment. The sewage treatment plant (STP) model SimpleTreat 3.1 is routinely applied as part of the European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances to estimate the fate and elimination of organic chemicals discharged via the sewage. SimpleTreat ...
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Management of chemical exposure: the limitations of a risk-based approach
Risk assessment and risk-based management approaches are becoming incorporated into a wide range of disciplines as frameworks for use in critical decision-making pathways. During its rapid expansion, many of the assumptions, subjective judgements and irreducible uncertainties inherent within the risk paradigm are becoming increasingly overlooked. This paper provides a critical review of the ...
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