Assessing Green Environmental Performance
Overview:
In this program, you will learn:
- Understand how assessing environmental performance can provide information, on which effective environmental management decisions can be based.
- Work through the purpose and nature of the initial environmental review.
- Explore how an initial environmental review is conducted.
- Begin to identify the significant environmental impacts of an organization’s activities.
- Understand the purpose and nature of an environmental audit.
- Outline how an audit is carried out.
Objectives:
This program will help you to understand:
- The initial environmental review (preparation, understanding existing environmental management practices, identifying the ways in which an organization interacts with the environment, identifying applicable legal requirements, understanding previous environmental management history, discharges to water, and utility consumption).
- How to carry out the initial environmental review.
- Understanding the results of the initial environmental review (legal compliance, objectives and targets, risk management, determining the significance of environmental impacts, data management, management, benchmarking, and environmental certification).
- Environmental audits (initiating the audit, conducting document review, preparing for on-site activities, conducting the on-site audit, audit reporting, and completion).
Program Benefits:
After completion of SBS Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management (Program 3 Assessing Green Environmental Performance), you will be able to:
- See how environmental performance can influence environmental management decisions.
- Understand the purpose and nature of an Initial Environmental Review;
- Know how to conduct an Initial Environmental Review.
- Be able to identify significant environmental impacts of an organization’s activities.
- Understand the purpose and nature of an environmental audit.
- Be able to outline how an audit is carried out, and how to carry one out yourself.
Experts & Strategic Consultants
Dr. Bassem Nassouhy
Member of the Committee,
World Green Growth Summit
