Review organisational environmental performance and recommend improvements

This standard describes the skills and knowledge required to review organisational environmental performance and recommend improvements.  The standard looks at the identification of changes and the development of a plan to implement these.

This standard is suitable for:

·        A manager with responsibility for environmental management and/or sustainability
·        An owner/manager of a business seeking to improve the environmental performance of the organisation
·        An individual with a specific brief to review environmental performance
·        An environmental management systems co-ordinator or equivalent
·        A consultant providing environmental advice.

This standard covers measuring the achievement of organisational objectives and targets for environmental performance and the identification of improvements.

It also covers the engagement and communication of all those involved in fulfilling organisational objectives and targets for environmental performance.

Those involved in reviewing organisational environmental performance and recommending improvements, need to be involved in carbon accounting and Life Cycle Assessments of their products, services, and activities.  This will involve assessing their own carbon footprint of their products and services, as well as making decisions on who to purchase resources from, through evaluating their natural capital accounting and their cardon accounting.  Organisations need to be accountable for how they manage their impact on the environment, they need to become more sustainable.  The organisation needs to look at their carbon impact at global as well as a local level.  This will also involve assessing the impact

1. Benefits to the organisation and to the environment of improved environmental performance
2. Resources required to implement potential improvements to environmental performance
3. Relevant environmental, legal, and other non-regulatory environmental requirements applicable to the organisation
4. How to identify the relevant stakeholders, including those from protected characteristics and evaluate their views
5. Current industry good practice associated with improving environmental performance of the organisation
6. Methods for benchmarking organisational environmental performance
7. Methods for reviewing and evaluating the achievement of objectives and targets of environmental performance
8. The difference between active (pro-active) environmental performance monitoring and reactive monitoring
9. How to predict the environmental, social, and economic benefits of potential improvements to the organisations environmental performance
10. The reasons for and benefits of continual improvement of environmental performance
11. How to record finding in a suitable format and present recommendations to relevant stakeholders, for improvements to organisational environmental performance
12. Key Performance Indicators associated with improvement to environmental performance