Integrating Environmental and Financial Performance at the Enterprise Level: A Methodology for Standardizing Eco-efficiency Indicators
Imprint
Geneva, United Nations. 2000
Descript
ix, 106 p. : tables
SUMMARY
Abstract: This publication provides guidance on the identification, selection, and construction of the most useful environmental performance indicators. Standardized indicators could be used both for monitoring and comparing the performance of enterprises or to engage in benchmarking. Chapters one and two introduce basic material for those readers not conversant with environmental performance indicators or the concept of eco-efficiency and the link between financial and environmental performance. Chapter three identifies five generic environmental indicators and a financial performance indicator, which meet the test of global recognition. Chapter four introduces a method for building environmental performance indicators, which is consistent with that used for financial performance indicators. It resolves the frequent problem that the reporting entity for financial data differs from that for environmental data. Chapter five reviews examples of such indicators which are already in use by leading edge enterprises, thus demonstrating the feasibility of the approach. [English only]
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International Institute for Trade and Developement : UNCTAD Collection
