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11-20 of 31 for the Category : Commerce, Trade & Industry and the Subcategory : Services - Commerce, Trade & IndustryEnvironmental Goods & Services
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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
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Environmental management is a deliberate, multi-disciplinary process, which requires careful preparation and planning.
Read more about Environmental Management PlanningEnvironmental Management Systems (EMS)
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Care for the environment includes concern about how industry manufactures products and the impact that such products and manufacturing processes could have on the environment. Controlling this requires a documented environmental management system (EM
Read more about Environmental Management Systems (EMS)Environmental Standards
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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
Read more about Environmental StandardsEquator Principles
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In June 2003, 10 leading banks (representing approximately three quarters of the global project finance market) adopted the Equator Principles. These principles were developed by several leading banks and are based on the environmental and social pol
Read more about Equator PrinciplesGreen Architecture
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Green architecture has intrinsic in its philosophy the notion of a caring social ideology in the design process. The site is considered more than a place to build the project, but rather its geology, geography and ecology are regarded as a resource w
Read more about Green ArchitectureGreenwash
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Greenwash is not a new concept. The term emerged from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and it entered the Concise Oxford Dictionary in 1999.
Read more about GreenwashIntegrated Environmental Management (IEM)
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Integrated environmental management is a philosophy that is concerned with finding the right balance (sometimes called the 'golden mean') between development and the environment.
Read more about Integrated Environmental Management (IEM)Landscape Architecture
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Landscape architecture is a diversified and creative design profession that integrates ecological, social, functional and aesthetic aspects of everyday life into designing places to improve people’s quality of life.
Read more about Landscape ArchitectureLife Cycle Assessment (LCA)
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) looks at the entire life cycle of a product, process or activity ‘from cradle to grave’ or from the first moment it was thought of until its final disposal or destruction.
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