Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Group 9
Manish Goel (2/2013)
Shobhit Pathak (3/2013)
Dhruv Bansal (16/2013)
Shubham Sharma (42/2013)
Karan Karamchandani (45/2013)
Garvit Dhingra (50/2013)
Flow Of Presentation
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Do animals, plants, and perhaps even rivers, ecosystems and biomes have
rights?
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Environmental Protection
Over the past several centuries, the government or rulemaking bodies of society have recognized many societal rights
and extended legal protection of those rights to a wider
framework.
Environmental Issues
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Land Degradation
Acid Rains
Depletion of ozone layer
Deforestation
Environmental disaster
Global Warming
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
"Sustainable development is development that meets
the needs of the present, without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs."
It's also about ensuring a strong, healthy and just
society. This means meeting the diverse needs of
all people in existing and future communities,
promoting personal wellbeing, social cohesion
and inclusion, and creating equal opportunity.
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION
Role Of Corporate in
Environmental Management
In Past Times
The big corporations were believed to deploy tremendous amount
of human and financial resources for economic value addition.
The big corporations were blamed for all the pollution and
environmental degradation.
They were blamed for producing massive waste in an endeavour to
produce wealth.
In Present Times
The corporate are expected to be proactive and innovative.
The industrys role is changing fast from one that is negative to one
that is positive in all areas of socio-economic endeavour.
Businesses are coming up with new concept of CORPORATE
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
INNOVATIVE BUSINESS
RESPONSES
Many Companies are finding ways and means to cut waste
wherever possible.
Instead of fighting against the regulations, some firms are
taking a proactive stance and are improving their
environmental performance.
Industries have realised the potential for benefits from
pollution prevention.
Companies have found that reduction in raw material and in
amount of toxic wastes they produce can yield savings.
SCOPE OF EA
The prime objective of audits is to test the adequacy of
existing management systems, they fulfil a fundamentally
different role from the monitoring of environmental
performance.
The scope of an audit can vary from simple compliance
testing to a more rigorous examination, depending on the
perceived needs of the management.
ADVANTAGES OF EA
Increasing employee awareness of Environmental laws,
regulations and standards
Finding out the potential cost saving areas within the plant
including waste minimization / resource recovery possibilities
Better exchange of data between group related to operation and
management
Helping management to take decisions in relation to plant
modification or alteration
Ensuring better relation with the regulatory authorities by way
of meeting regulatory requirement
Providing an info-base which can be used in emergent
conditions and validating its potential
Ethical Worldviews
Anthropocentrism
Sentio-centrism
Eco-centric Holism
Anthropocentrism
Human centered
morality.
Only humans have
intrinsic value and
moral standing.
The rest of the
natural world has
instrumental value
(use to humans).
Sentio-Centrism
Sentient-being centered morality
All and only sentient beings (animals
that feel pain) have intrinsic value
and moral standing.
The rest of the natural world has
instrumental value.
Both humans and sentient animals
have rights and/or interests that
must be considered
Eco-centric Holism
ecosystem centered morality
Non-individuals (the earth as an
interconnected ecosystem,
species, natural processes) have
moral standing or intrinsic value
and are deserving of respect.
Individuals must be concerned
about the whole community of
life/nature,
Humans should strive to preserve
ecological balance and stability
Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint has historically
been defined as "the total sets of
greenhouse gas emissions caused by
an organization, event, product or
person."
Carbon credit
A carbon credit is a generic term for any
tradable certificate or permit representing the
right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide or
the mass of another greenhouse gas with
a carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e)
equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide
CASE STUDY
Introduction
George with his family had moved to Hondo, Texas from El
Paso.
He was made the manager of a small plant of Ardnak plastics.
The plant employed a few hundred workers which were a
substantial portion of Hondo's population.
Georges first challenge was that his plants smokestack
emissions were above the EPA guidelines.
Bill, Georges boss called him to warn him about these
guidelines and told him that the company had no money to
replace the smokestack scrubbers.
Bill told George that if the guideline were not met fines would
be levied on the company
Possible Alternatives
George could follow the same approach adopted by other
plant managers in the company
George could relocate to Mexico
George could look for another job
George
Georges Family
People of Hondo
EPA
The Mexican town