Traduction de «Environmental business » (Anglais → Français) :

environmental business | green business | sustainable business

endemic conditions associated with environmental iodine deficiency either directly or as a consequence of maternal iodine deficiency. Some of the conditions have no current hypothyroidism but are the consequence of inadequate thyroid hormone secretion in the developing fetus. Environmental goitrogens may be associated.

environmental impact [ eco-balance | ecological assessment | ecological balance sheet | effect on the environment | environmental assessment | environmental effect | environmental footprint | Environmental assessment(ECLAS) | environmental assessment(GEMET) | environmental damage(GEMET) | environmental impact statement(GEMET) | environmental impact study(GEMET) | Environmental sustainability(STW) | environmental impact assessment(UNBIS) ]

Definition: Anxiety that is generalized and persistent but not restricted to, or even strongly predominating in, any particular environmental circumstances (i.e. it is free-floating ). The dominant symptoms are variable but include complaints of persistent nervousness, trembling, muscular tensions, sweating, lightheadedness, palpitations, dizziness, and epigastric discomfort. Fears that the patient or a relative will shortly become ill or have an accident are often expressed. | Anxiety:neurosis | reaction | state

Definition: Disorders in which manifestation of anxiety is the major symptom and is not restricted to any particular environmental situation. Depressive and obsessional symptoms, and even some elements of phobic anxiety, may also be present, provided that they are clearly secondary or less severe.

eco-audit | environmental audit | environmental auditing | green auditing | internal environmental audit

Environmental Protection Agency | United States Environmental Protection Agency | US Environmental Protection Agency | EPA [Abbr.]

Q. whereas greenwashing – projecting an image of supposedly positive environmental action in order to deceive the public and draw attention away from practices harmful to the environment – misleads consumers, the general public and regulators regarding environmental performance and undermines the pursuit of responsible business conduct and for these reasons must be combatted; whereas more generally companies using CSR as a marketing tool must ensure that any claims made are accurate;

2. Believes that while co-regulation and self-regulation cannot be substitutes for appropriate sectoral regulation where such is needed, for instance with regard to social and environmental requirements, labour and employment practices, human rights, or in any of the areas covered by CSR, it could underpin existing private and voluntary CSR initiatives by establishing minimum principles, thereby ensuring consistency, materiality, multi-stakeholder input and transparency, and by facilitating the creation of environmental and social rating agencies specialised in CSR; stresses that any form of CSR based on self-regulation and self-organis ...[+++]ation of the market must include provision for ‘access to remedy’ in line with ‘pillar three’ of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; notes, at the same time, that public administrations should provide support by creating appropriate conditions – and providing appropriate tools and instruments, such as an incentive system – for CSR cooperation; believes that the philanthropic activities of businesses should, as a matter of principle, be voluntary;

The cap on energy taxes was State aid, granted through the tax system, which was aimed at least indirectly at an improvement in environmental protection, whereas the exemption from the purchase obligation for energy-intensive businesses did not pursue any environmental objective and could not be subsumed under the Environmental Aid Guidelines.

89. Reiterates the importance accorded to the corporate social responsibility of small-scale businesses, which necessitates horizontal links, networks and services; considers it ineffective to refer to the European Environmental Management and Audit system certification, both because this will detract from existing certificates, and because it links in solely with the environmental challenge;