Using environmental management systems in industry

Agenda 21 recommends that industry should establish environmental management systems, including environmental auditing of production or distribution sites, in order to identify where the installation of cleaner production methods is needed.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Managing the environment
2. Managing production
3. Identifying priorities for national environmental action plans
4. Enhancing corporate environmental responsibility
5. Advancing industrial environmental management
6. Achieving cleaner production

1. Using total quality environmental management
2. Improving environmental auditing of production costs
3. Adopting international standards for environment management systems

1. Promoting environmental certification schemes
2. Assessing alternative measures for controlling transboundary air pollution

1. Ensuring continuous corporate environmental improvement

1. Applying culture-based knowledge systems

1. Unproductivity
2. Underproduction
3. Uncleanliness
4. Overproduction
5. Mismanagement

1. International Organization for Standardization
2. American Society for Quality
3. GDRC: Environmental Management Systems
4. Your Guide to Environmental Management Systems
5. What is an environmental management system?
6. Environmental Management Systems (EMS)