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Environmental Management Systems and Climate Change

Environmental Management Systems and Climate Change here is still scientific uncertainty about exactly what climate change will bring in the future. What is known is that the future will be vastly different from today. Consider the following: • Residents of Long Island have turned to the Army Corps of Engineers for help in protecting themselves from rising sea levels that increasingly bring storm surges further inland. New Jersey is already in the midst of an aggressive buy-out campaign aimed at residences and businesses that are in vulnerable flood plains. Many states are facing sharp disagreements as to whether they should focus efforts on preparing for the inevitable future, or try to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and thus change the future. An international federation of cities is coordinating efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant from New Jersey, is joining with other large industrial organizations in a partnership with the state to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Energy conservation has been identified as one of the major ways for industry, institutions, and individuals to reduce these emissions. • • • • INTRODUCTION: THE GREENHOUSE GAS ISSUE Large corporations are beginning to understand the need to review their environmental management systems http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Quality Management Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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1088-1913
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1520-6483
DOI
10.1002/tqem.1209
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here is still scientific uncertainty about exactly what climate change will bring in the future. What is known is that the future will be vastly different from today. Consider the following: • Residents of Long Island have turned to the Army Corps of Engineers for help in protecting themselves from rising sea levels that increasingly bring storm surges further inland. New Jersey is already in the midst of an aggressive buy-out campaign aimed at residences and businesses that are in vulnerable flood plains. Many states are facing sharp disagreements as to whether they should focus efforts on preparing for the inevitable future, or try to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and thus change the future. An international federation of cities is coordinating efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant from New Jersey, is joining with other large industrial organizations in a partnership with the state to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Energy conservation has been identified as one of the major ways for industry, institutions, and individuals to reduce these emissions. • • • • INTRODUCTION: THE GREENHOUSE GAS ISSUE Large corporations are beginning to understand the need to review their environmental management systems

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Environmental Quality Management – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 2001

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