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Eco-labelling

( Article Type: Explanation )

Eco-labelling is a concept that ensures that products are labelled with information that informs the consumer or the user exactly what ingredients are in the product, whether or not they are ‘environment friendly’ and whether the packaging is bio

Eco-taxes

( Article Type: Explanation )

Eco-taxes are taxes, duties and fees, which are levied by governments to encourage companies and individuals to be more aware of environmental protection requirements and reduce their levels of pollution.

Environmental Due Diligence

( Article Type: Explanation )

An environmental due diligence exercise or audit is carried out to identify the extent and nature of environmental risk involved when companies are bought and sold.

Environmental Goods & Services

( Article Type: Overview )

Also known as Green Industries, the Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) sector comprises the set of companies which provide products and services to measure, prevent, reduce or reverse damage to the natural environment and the depletion or pol

Environmental Justice

( Article Type: Explanation )

Environmental justice tries to right the wrongs of past practices, which put the poor and the disadvantaged next to dirty and polluting industries or on poor and degraded land. It tries to ensure that the wrongs are not repeated.

Environmental Law

( Article Type: Explanation )

Although environmental law is a relatively new discipline in South Africa, a considerable number of new laws have been passed in the last five years. These, together with the environmental rights contained in the Constitution of the Republic of South

Environmental Law and Liability

( Article Type: Overview )

South African law regards the environment as a public trust to be conserved and protected for the benefit of all. Consequently if the environment is harmed, the law makes provision for holding a range of people responsible through imposing crimin

Environmental Liability

( Article Type: Explanation )

South Africa is littered with a multitude of human-induced contaminated areas, some of which arose as a result of activities that took place 10, 20 or even 50 years ago. Who bares the obligation to rehabilitate such areas and to what extent is this l

Environmental Risk & Liability

( Article Type: Explanation )

Environmental risk is the way of describing the possibility (the technical word is the 'probability') of an environmental accident (such as a spill of wastes or chemicals polluting a river) occurring. Environmental liability is the threat of an e

Environmental Standards

( Article Type: Explanation )

Conforming to environmental legislation and meeting the demands of the green lobby present major challenges to organisations today. Environmental issues have come to the forefront in recent years with greater awareness