Environmental performance indicators: An empirical study of Canadian manufacturing firms

Environment protection, like a new religion consists of: environmental programmes, objectives and targets, training, incentive schemes, audit frequency, site inspections, administration and community relations. This paper presents the main environmental performance indicators. They should therefore be cost-effective and appropriate to the size and type of organization and its needs and priorities. Organizations should make the optimum use of the environmental information they collect. To this end the indicators should fulfill the dual purpose of assisting the management of the organization and providing information to stakeholders. In article we present a set of Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI). These indicators should therefore be cost-effective and appropriate to the size and type of organization and its needs and priorities. We present many categories of environmental performance indicators: comparability (indicators should enable a comparison and show changes in the environmental performance); balance between problematic (bad) and prospective (good) areas, continuity (indicators should be based on the same criteria and should be taken over comparable time sections or units); timeliness (indicators should be updated frequently enough to allow action to be taken); clarity (indicators should be clear and understandable).

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The use of environmental performance indicators in “the greenest city in Europe”

Baltic Journal of Management ◽

10.1108/bjm-01-2018-0028 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 122-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jan Alpenberg ◽

Tomasz Wnuk-Pel ◽

Philip Adamsson ◽

Johannes Petersson

Keyword(s):

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Environmental Indicators ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Content Type ◽

Study Approach ◽

External Stakeholders ◽

Municipal Managers ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine why and how municipal managers and CEOs for municipally owned companies use the environmental performance indicators. Design/methodology/approach A case study approach as a research design was used. In total, 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted among managers for administrative departments and municipal company CEOs. Findings This study found that the environmental performance indicators are used by department managers mainly for resource allocation, control and for teaching the employees. The CEOs of the municipal companies use the environmental indicators for communicating with external stakeholders and see the indicators primarily as marketing tools. The main reason why the environmental performance indicators are used in the municipality can be the strong demand from the local politicians to push the “green agenda,” and therefore the managers have to comply. Research limitations/implications As in any case study, generalizations from the research should be made with care, but since this is only one municipality, further research is needed to find additional evidence. Practical implications The findings of this study have a number of implications for future practice, and it is worth mentioning that clear guidelines for how the information could be made more useful for managers at the managerial level in Växjö municipality (VM) are requested for both the municipal managers and the CEOs. Social implications Overall, this study strengthens the idea that environmental performance indicators could be used to a larger extent for communicating with external stakeholders both for municipal departments and companies. Originality/value The research adds to the literature by examining different patterns of using environmental performance indicators in a unique setting – in VM, which is called “the greenest city in Europe” and is one of the “pioneers” in environmental work and extensively uses performance indicators.

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A methodological proposal for the identification of energy-environmental performance indicators aimed at recovering the air quality

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management ◽

10.1504/ijetm.2007.013238 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 7 (1/2) ◽

pp. 85

Author(s):

Fabrizio Cumo ◽

Umberto Di Matteo ◽

Giambattista Guidi

Keyword(s):

Air Quality ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

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Study of basic environmental performance indicators of a coal mining enterprise

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202131504005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 315 ◽

pp. 04005

Author(s):

Vladimir Mikhailov ◽

Tatyana Galanina ◽

Svetlana Bugrova ◽

Yana Mikhailova ◽

Evdokiya Kulpina

Keyword(s):

Coal Mining ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Environmental Law ◽

Practical Importance ◽

Weighted Average ◽

Management Decision ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

Mining Enterprise ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

Current processes of environmental law enforcement require the use of innovative approaches to the problem of environmental management. In this regard, an adequate choice of the environmental performance indicators of an enterprise and the technique for their analysis, aimed at developing efficient, environmentally friendly management decisions, is of great importance. The technique for calculating the environmental and eco-economic performance indicators of a coal mining enterprise, including using the weighted average hazard class of pollutants or production and consumption waste is discussed in the article. Various options for the application of this approach, which is of practical importance for reducing the labor intensity of management decision-making by industrial enterprises, are considered.

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The use of fuzzy analytical network process (FUZZY ANP) prioritize the factors affecting environmental performance indicators from the perspective of export food industry

Strad Research ◽

10.37896/sr7.6/033 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

Keyword(s):

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Food Industry ◽

Analytical Network Process ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Fuzzy Anp ◽

Network Process ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

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Investigation of thermal architectures for flue-gas assisted organic rankine cycle systems: an assessment for thermodynamics and environmental performance indicators

Energy Sources Part A Recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects ◽

10.1080/15567036.2019.1587095 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 505-520

Author(s):

Burak Turkan ◽

Akin Burak Etemoglu ◽

Muhiddin Can

Keyword(s):

Flue Gas ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Organic Rankine Cycle ◽

Rankine Cycle ◽

Cycle Systems ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

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Value Relevance of Corporate Environmental Performance: A Comprehensive Analysis of Performance Indicators Using Korean Data

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12177209 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (17) ◽

pp. 7209 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hyunwoo Choi ◽

Ingoo Han ◽

Jaywon Lee

Keyword(s):

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Firm Value ◽

Performance Indicator ◽

Value Relevance ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Corporate Environmental Performance ◽

Main Research ◽

Prior Literature ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

This paper examines the value relevance of corporate environmental performance (CEP) using individual environmental performance indicators and multidimensional constructs derived from Trumpp et al. (2015). Accounting information can be described as ‘value-relevant’ when the information in financial statements has the ability to explain firm value. In recent years, stakeholders such as governments, public institutions, firms, customers, and local communities have recognized the importance of corporate environmental performance. Thus, one of the main research questions is whether corporate environmental performance is value relevant. The empirical results in this paper indicate that only a few individual environmental performance indicator variables are value relevant, while most environmental performance constructs have a significant impact on firm value. Our findings suggest that firm value significantly increases with improved environmental management or operational performance. In addition, environmental performance indicators and environmental performance constructs have a significant impact on firms in environmentally sensitive industries, confirming the notion of higher value relevance of environmental information for firms in these industries. This study contributes to prior literature by carrying out a comprehensive analysis on the multidimensional nature of corporate environmental performance and its impact on value relevance. This paper also reconciles extant literature on the construct validity of environmental performance indicators and environmental performance constructs by formulating standardized composite measures of CEP following Larker et al. (2007).

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