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Criteria & Metrics
15 Criteria and 50 Associated Metrics for Scoring Environmental
Performance
Environmental Management Criteria
1. Adoption and use of an international or other widely recognized
environmental management system
A. Company-wide Environmental Management Approach
B. Use of 3rd Party Environmental Audits
2. Engagement of a company-wide environmentally sensitive
Environment, Health and Safety Culture
A. Presence of a Board of Directors Committee for EHS
B. Role/Presence of Senior Corporate Officer for EHS
3. Operational expectation that raw material and services
"Supply Chain" assures environmental and resource
use standards equivalent to company EH&S standards
A. Scope of Supply Chain Control
B. Nature of Supply Contract Enforcement
4. Consideration of Long-term, Life-Cycle Assessments of Products
during Design, Production or Modification
A. Scope of Life Cycle Assessments during (or after) product
or service planning & design steps
B. Scope of Life Cycle Assessments for Manufacturing
5. Demonstration of significant Third-Party awards and Recognitions
for environmental protection, conservation or product innovation
A. Ongoing Regional and National Recognitions for Environmental
Protection and
Conservation
B. Regional or National Recognition for Low-Impact Product
Designs, Introductions or Innovative Production
6. Frequency and cost of environmental incidents or sanctions
in relation to sector averages
A. Scope of Fines & Sanctions
B. Scope of Site Remediation Costs
C. Scope of New Investment in Remodeling or Prevention Infrastructure
7. Transparency in environmental management, evidenced in
annual website reporting of Resource Use Intensity, Waste
Disposal, Emissions, and Recycling Capacity
A. Transparency in Environmental Management Reporting
B. Transparency in Environmental Technical Reporting
Environmental Technical Criteria
8. Water conservation and support of runoff or flood control,
groundwater recharge and surface water planning
A. Water Use Planning
B. Water (or Hydrologic System) Conservation
C. Control and/or Reduced Flow-through of On-site Water
D. Groundwater Protection
E. Surface Water Benefits (Recreation, Electricity and Transportation)
F. Impact on Flood Plains, Riparian Zones and Other Wetlands
9. Minimizes unnecessary land conversion to high runoff -inducing
land use or unstable land cover and related diminishment of
ecosystem functioning
A. Compensation for runoff-inducing land conversions
B. Avoid Introduction of Monoculture or other Potentially
Impoverishing Site Management Practices
10. Nutrient and toxics control
A. Control of Sulfur Gaseous Emissions
B. Control of Nitrogen Gas Emissions
C. Control of Toxic Chemicals Emissions
D. Control of Toxic Metal Emissions
E. Control of Hazardous Waste/Solid Waste Disposal
F. Control of Discharges to Aquatic Environment
G. Compliance History/Incidents
11. Energy conservation support (reducing coal/oil/gas extraction
and transport impacts)
A. Energy Conservation Planning
B. Energy Intensity of Products
C. Scope of Renewable Energy Adoption
D. Energy Conservation Consideration in Product Life Cycle
Management
12. Air quality and climate management services, including
improved visibility, reduced heat island effects, and greenhouse
gas management
A. Reduction of Contributions to Long Distance Aerosol
Plumes or Precursors of Urban Smog (Visibility Effect)
B. Maintenance of Green Cover to Reduce Heat Island Effects
(alleviating summer cooling costs)
C. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Planning and Participation
in GHG Emission Reduction Programs
D. Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Achievements
E. Programs for Carbon Retention or Sequestering
13. Conservation of green layer production, facilitating
agriculture, timber, biological energy fixation, and carbon
storage
A. Sustainability of Region-wide Biological Energy Capture
B. Meet Standards of Productivity without Controversial
or Risk-prone Measures (aggressive fertilization, irrigation,
and genetic modification of species)
14. Physical and biological diversity conservation support,
including fish, wildlife, food chain and aesthetics
A. Considers Potential for Habitat Destruction
B. Programs and Outcomes of Biodiversity Conservation Initiatives
C. Supply-chain Management for Biodiversity Conservation and Green Layer
Productivity
D. Consideration of Landscape Integrity
15. Human health benefits and services through reduced ozone
precursors, reduced PM 2.5 aerosol precursors, and associated
mitigation of illness and mortality
A. Scope of Control for Ozone Precursors
B. Significant Control of Particulate Formation from Acid
Gases such as SOx and NOx
C. Environmental, Health and Safety Incidents Potentially
Affecting Offsite Resources
D. Extent of Measures to Keep Personnel Informed of Off-site
Health Risks
E. Scope of Participation in Responses to Air or Water Quality
Alerts in the Surrounding Areas
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