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Environmental Liabilities and Social and Environmental Responsibility

There are several reasons that encourage a company to adopt integrated management methods. From an internal point of view: reduce costs, the continuous quality, the positive product and company image or the need for innovation. From the external point of view: the stakeholders as a whole, market, Providers, consumers or legislators. Thus, adapt to market requirements, and of the world, is a necessity for all organizations..

Environmental liability

the term passive, in the accounting figure, becomes the obligations of companies with third parties, and such obligations, even without a formal or legal charge, must be recognized.

The environmental liability represents the responsibilities that the company, like a big impact generator, have with the environment, representing like this, its social and environmental obligation to act in the search for the reduction of environmental aspects presented by it.

In this proposal, on a company's balance sheet, two analysis frameworks are included.: O environmental liability, that is, the damages generated in the present, and also what will be generated in the future; It's the environmental asset, which includes the applications of resources that aim to recover the environment, as well as investments in technology for pollution containment or elimination processes.

The identification of environmental liabilities has been widely used in assessments and financial activities, because the responsibility and obligation of environmental restoration may fall to the new owners.

It works as a decision element in the sense of identifying, evaluate and quantify positions, potential environmental costs and expenses that need to be met in the short term, medium and long term.

integrated management - environmental liabilities
Environmental liabilities are environmental impacts caused by the lack of risk analysis and integrated environmental management within the organization. Photo: disclosure.

environmental risk

Environmental risks are those that are present in work environments, are capable of causing damage to the worker's health and the environment.

Second to regulation NBR ISO 14001:2015, environmental impact defined by any modification of the environment, adverse or beneficial, that it turns out, in whole or in part, From environmental aspects of the organization.

Environmental aspects are defined by elements of activities, products or services of an organization that can interact with the environment, causing or being able to cause environmental impacts, positive or negative. consumption of natural resources, gas emissions or waste generated can be examples of environmental aspects.

Environmental impact is then defined as any change in physical properties, chemical and biological aspects of the environment, caused by any form of matter or energy resulting from human activities that, directly or indirectly, affect the environment. That is, it's the It is made caused by our environmental aspects.

Social and Environmental Responsibility

Promote business behavior that can integrate social and environmental elements that are not necessarily contained in the legislation but that meet society's expectations in relation to the company.”

A corporate social and environmental responsibility is defined on the basis of any analysis. its emergence, and consequent application, brought to society the change in the behavior of entrepreneurs in relation to environmental issues and how it can affect business in the short term, medium and long term.

A integrated management is one of the most effective and active tools in the organization. And results in the evolution, in a profound change in the way of seeing and making products and services, and a beneficial transition to an environmentally responsible company.

Integrated management as a tool for impact reduction and adaptation

Integrated environmental management is a set of multilateral actions aimed at avoiding impacts or reducing them.

Within integrated management there is a management system, which is a set of organizational responsibilities, procedures, processes and means that are adopted to implement an environmental policy in a particular company or production unit. E, currently, constitutes the main instrument to achieve sustainable industrial development, and has been occupying a prominent position in terms of competitiveness in companies, due to the benefits it brings to the production process as a whole..

The advantages of applying integrated management in the organization

Compliance with regulatory requirements, international quality and management standards, improves environmental performance, increases market insertion, resulting in an improvement in the image with customers and the community.

Thus, manufacturing processes are optimized, reducing inputs as raw material, increasing the product lifecycle, whether by recycling the generated waste, be reusing in another process. In general, integrated management enables the correct allocation of resources in each process.

 

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