Linking environmental quality and good business practice

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends that governments, industry, trade unions and consumers should promote an understanding of the interrelationship between good environment and good business practice.

1. Promoting good practice in health, environment and safety management
2. Diffusing best practices
3. Developing quality strategies
4. Developing methods that safeguard environmental quality

1. Extending producer responsibility
2. Advancing industrial environmental management

1. Rolling back environmental legislation
2. Preparing national and local environmental quality standards
3. Increasing training for sustainable development
4. Developing financial sector strategies for environmental protection

1. Improving quality research at business schools
2. Confronting business with environmental issues

1. Understanding
2. Quality
3. Misunderstanding
4. Good
5. Business