Environmental And Financial Performance

Author : David Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317575008
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Link Between Company Environmental and Financial Performance (Routledge Revivals) written by David Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Link between Company Environmental & Financial Performance, first published in 1998, is a detailed investigation into the effects of environmental performance – resource efficiency, regulatory compliance, new product and service opportunities – on corporate financial performance. This report makes essential reading for company management, investors and other stakeholders. It demonstrates the quantitative links between environmental and financial performance for the UK’s best and worst environmental performers across a range of business sectors. It shows that there is no financial penalty for being environmentally proactive, and confirms US findings that good environmental performance improves a company’s financial performance.

Author : Mark A. Cohen
Publisher : Investor Responsibility
ISBN 13 : 9781879775268
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental and Financial Performance written by Mark A. Cohen and published by Investor Responsibility. This book was released on 1995 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover which foreign companies are conducting or are considering conducting business in southern Africa. Abstracts of nearly 2000 firms include the locations, product lines, number of employees & the amount of assets & sales in southern Africa. For companies with non-equity links, abstracts include the name & location of the company's South African distributor or licensee. Appendices sort companies by industry sector, size & location. The "Company Watch" section identifies firms that have announced plans to establish business ties to southern Africa.

Author : Ruth Hillary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351282824
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment written by Ruth Hillary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles a largely neglected topic: small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their environmental impact. Over 90% of all firms are SMEs. Their importance to the health of national and international economies is recognized. But what of their environmental impact? Individually, this may be small but, collectively, they pose a huge and largely unregulated threat to national and indeed the global environment. There have been many failed attempts to engage SMEs in environmental stewardship. Why is this? And where are the success stories needed to set best-practice examples? Environmental protection is widely touted as being a win-win scenario for business with economic spin-offs in terms of energy and waste reduction quickly producing payback for capital expenditures. Why is the "good environmental management equals good business management" message not getting through? In Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment Dr Ruth Hillary brings together an outstanding international collection of experts from government, international and national support agencies, academics and the business community to present arguments about the key environmental business imperatives facing the small-firm sector. The book is divided into four sections:Attitudes and Perceptions of Small Firms to the Environment and SustainabilityEnvironmental Management in the Smaller FirmPractical Strategies for Reaching SMEsCase Studies from around the World. In these sections, the book examines the threats – such as trade, supply chain issues and legislative compliance – but is also solution-oriented, with considerable discussion of the management tools smaller firms can use to improve their environmental performance. It aims to provide practical strategies for smaller firms and to that end includes a range of informative case studies from around the world. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment is the most comprehensive book on the subject available and will prove invaluable not only to SMEs themselves, seeking to understand a rapidly changing world, but to consultants and small-business advisors, local and central government and to all those in academia looking for ways to improve the environmental performance of small businesses.

Author : Program on Energy, the Environment, and the Economy (Aspen Institute)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780898432541
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncovering Value written by Program on Energy, the Environment, and the Economy (Aspen Institute) and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pavan Sukhdev
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759630
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporation 2020 written by Pavan Sukhdev and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business as usual’ isn’t working. There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today’s market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half-century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many people unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. In Corporation 2020, Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping new vision for tomorrow’s corporation: one that will increase human well being and social equity, decrease environmental risks and ecological losses, and still generate profit. Sukhdev illustrates his vision with examples ranging from Infosys’s creation of human capital to Citibank’s having to change its project finance policy due to rainforest destruction. From its insightful look into the history of the corporation to the thoughtful discussion of the steps needed to craft a better corporate model, Corporation 2020 offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future.

Author : Tim Lang
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191015717
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Policy written by Tim Lang and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing availability, and feeding more mouths. In the 21st century, this policy mix is quietly becoming unstuck. In a world marred by obesity alongside malnutrition, climate change alongside fuel and energy crises, water stress alongside more mouths to feed, and social inequalities alongside unprecedented accumulation of wealth, the old rubric of food policy needs re-evaluation. This book explores the enormity of what the new policy mix must address, taking the approach that food policy must be inextricably linked with public health, environmental damage, and social inequalities to be effective. Written by three authors with differing backgrounds, one in political science, another in environmental health and health promotion, and the third in social psychology, this book reflects the myriad of perspectives essential to a comprehensive view of modern food policy. It attempts to make sense of what is meant by food policy; explores whether the term has any currency in current policy discourse; assesses whether current policies help or hinder what happens; judges whether consensus can triumph in the face of competing bids for understanding; looks at all levels of governance, across the range of actors in the food system, from companies and the state to civil society and science; considers what direction food policies are taking, not just in the UK but internationally; assesses who (and what) gains or loses in the making of these food policies; and identifies a modern framework for judging how good or limited processes of policy-making are. This book provides a major comprehensive review of current and past food policy, thinking and proposing the need for what the authors call an ecological public health approach to food policy. Nothing less will be fit for the 21st century.

Author : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722194109
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Dividends written by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Dividends: Relationship Between Firms' Environmental Performance and Financial Performance

Author : Jonatan Pinkse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134119607
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Business and Global Climate Change written by Jonatan Pinkse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading experts in the field, International Business and Global Climate Change provides a comprehensive analysis of international business responses to global climate change and climate change policy.

Author : National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309173000
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics written by National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics is a corporate-focused analysis that brings clarity and practicality to the complex issues of environmental metrics in industry. The book examines the metrics implications to businesses as their responsibilities expand beyond the factory gateâ€"upstream to suppliers and downstream to products and services. It examines implications that arise from greater demand for comparability of metrics among businesses by the investment community and environmental interest groups. The controversy over what sustainable development means for businesses is also addressed. Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics identifies the most useful metrics based on case studies from four industriesâ€"automotive, chemical, electronics, and pulp and paperâ€"and includes specific corporate examples. It contains goals and recommendations for public and private sector players interested in encouraging the broader use of metrics to improve industrial environmental performance and those interested in addressing the tough issues of prioritization, weighting of metrics for meaningful comparability, and the longer term metrics needs presented by sustainable development.

Author : Rolf Färe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317538021
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance written by Rolf Färe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweden has a long history of ambitious environmental, energy and climate policy. Due to the large amount of data available it is possible to perform statistically sound analysis and assess long term changes in productivity, efficiency, and technological development. The data at hand together with Sweden’s ambitious energy and climate policy provides a unique opportunity to shed light on pertinent policy issues. The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance answers several key questions: What is the effect of the CO2 tax on environmental performance and profitability of firms? Does including emissions in productivity measurement of the industrial firm matter? Did the introduction of the EU ETS spur technological development in the Swedish industrial firm? What air pollutant is most inhibiting production when regulated? Being aware and learning from the Swedish case can be very relevant for countries that are in the process of shaping their climate policy. This book is of great importance to researchers and policy makers who are interested in environmental economics, industrial economics and climate change.