Environmental managementcourse content

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What is Enviromental Management?

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Environmental Management

• Take into account the environmental imapacts • Minimize the company´s products and

services environmental impacts.– Minimaize also to company´s customer

enrivomental impacts.

• Management of the functios as well leading the people

• Long term management• Can be– Strategic, operative and product/service specific

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Environmental Management

Environmental management system

Vison ja strategy

Less raw material, emissions and costs /LCA and Carbon FootprintGreen label products/services or own Green label

New product /service innovations

Service instead of the prodcut

Targets,monitorin

g, corretive actions

Green products and services

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Levels of Enviromental Management

• Top Level– Top Level management is commited to

enviromental issues in strategy• Misson, vison and strategy include enviromental

statements

– Enviromental Manament systems (like 14 001)• Tool to help to management environmental

issues at the company level. • Continious improvement

– Product strategy includes Green Products

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Business Environmental Analysis and Bulding the

Green Company

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Green Compan

y

Customers´ needs and

requirements?

Laws and rules?

Nature

Competitor 3

Competitor2

Competitor 1

Two- Way impacts

Today and Future

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Business Environment Analysis

• Two-Way impact• Existing and future business enviroment

affect the company when building the Green Company

• Company´s operations have an influence to business environment

• Business Environment:– Markets: customers and competitors– Nature– Legislation

Nature –Two Way affect

• Changes in the nature affect companies operations.

• Operations of the companies affect nature (=environmental impacts)• Example Climate Change

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Legislations

• Sustainable company observe the requirements of the legislation

• Enviromental legislation is developing fast– For instance. EU legislations

• Companies must take into account reguirements in advance

Laws and Rules

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Customers´needs and requirements

• Consumers and company customers: more aware of environmental matters–More requirements for suppliers• For Instance Tesco

• Also supply creates demand!

Competitors

• Frequent competitor analysis

• Decision: to be ahead of or follow the competitors

Competitor 3

Competitor2

Competitor 1