All Environment articles – Page 5

  • Features

    Climate Change

    11 April 2002

    With the cost of climate change becoming clear, all companies can expect increasing environmental scrutiny, says Jessica McCallin

  • Features

    When the inspector calls

    11 January 2002

    The contaminated land regime is now heading into an important phase. Risk management principals are at the core of the new legislation, says Sue Cooley

  • Analysis

    European call for CSR

    26 September 2001

    European commissioners have presented a Green Paper promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility (CSR).

  • Features

    Reassessing longtail exposures

    18 June 2001

    A recent court decision will cause some companies to reassess their liabilities where past operations have exposed their employees and others to asbestos.

  • Analysis

    The value of environmental performance

    18 June 2001

    Does superior environmental performance indicate increased shareholder value? An emerging body of evidence suggests it may, according to a report from the Assabet Group.

  • AIRMIC Portfolio

    Halon replacement on course

    15 June 2001

    Most British companies are on course with phasing halon in fire extinguishers, according to an AIRMIC survey.

  • Features

    Managing land risks

    14 June 2001

    Alasdair Fox and Alastair McKie discuss the impact of legal change.

  • Features

    The hazardous office

    14 June 2001

    How safe are your company's offices? Rosalind Benjamin gives some guidelines on assessing and removing dangers.

  • Features

    Effective environmental due diligence

    12 June 2001

    Environmental risks present both practical and legal challenges, quite unlike other factors you have to consider in a merger or acquisition, say David Hockin, Tanya Lloyd Jones & William Butterworth.

  • Features

    The polluter pays not always!

    12 June 2001

    Richard Ford discusses the implications of the new regime on contaminated land.

  • Analysis

    Environmental liability paper

    6 June 2001

    The deadline for submissions on the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability, adopted in February, is 1 July

  • Analysis

    Energy tax concerns

    6 June 2001

    UK companies are anxious about likely damage to business arising from the Kyoto environmental protection measures.