Brief about Environmental audit.
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Explanation:
Environmental audit is a general term that can reflect various types of evaluations intended to identify environmental compliance and management system implementation gaps, along with related corrective actions. In this way they perform an analogous (similar) function to financial audits.
The purpose of environmental auditing is to assess periodically the compliance of completed or on-going activities with the requirements of legislation, measures proposed in environmental policies, environmental management systems and environmental schemes or the provisions of standards and contracts, on the basis of ...
The benefits of the audit include:
Reducing environmental impacts. Reducing waste, water and energy costs (annual savings are typically greater than our fee for the audit) Improving relations with stakeholders. Providing the foundation for an environmental management system (EMS) such as ISO 14001 at a later date.
Answer:
Many factors influence and create problems to the enviroment.
Rapid industrialisation is necessary for the economic development of a country. However industries produce lot of smoke, polluted wastes, noise which is the inevitable result of their exisitance. Hoever these could be minimised by following strict procudeures laid by the government bodies such as Chimneys/ stacks for letting out smoke, Water / sweage treatment platns for treatment of effulent and sewage before letting out waste from the industries.
Noise enclosures are provided by noise polluting generators and other heavy machinery.
Also industries/ automobiles/ Transport use a lot of fuel such as coal, wood, etc which deplete the natural resources. Minium use of natural resources and useage of alternate renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy reduces pollution as well as conserves natural resources.