ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the organisations impact of the environment. The various impacts are direct impacts, supply chain impacts, Product/service impacts. The chapter provides information about pressures driving corporate environmental performance and managing sustainability threats and opportunities it includes sustainability threats and sustainability opportunities. Raw material availability and increasing cost driven by non-renewable resources becoming scarcer, e.g. fossil fuel based materials. Increased legal constraints are likely to be part of the education - taxation - regulation package of measures used by government to drive the shift to sustainability. As many of the pressures around sustainability relate to inefficiencies in material and energy usage, organizations that respond well may not simply avoid the disadvantages of escalating costs but make savings through becoming increasingly efficient and streamlined throughout their direct and indirect operations. The chapter is the essential guide for students who preparing for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management.
