VENUE: The Manhattan Hotel in Pretoria
Overview
Challenges facing organizations can range from having to comply with legal requirements of pollution prevention and control to setting up environmental management systems to meet the ISO 14001 standard in environmental management. Many organizations also have to deal with specific issues including contaminated land, the climate change levy and packaging regulations. Wider issues also have to be addressed such as sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. Organizations have also started to realize the benefits of effective environmental management in terms of the cost savings that can be made – for example, the savings that can be achieved through effective waste and energy management initiatives. The trend towards integrating environmental practices into everyday management has in many cases created a training need for the specialist and generalist.
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