Sustainable Management

In the first two years of EMF’s existence we worked on the sustainability issue in the corporate world. The focus was on developing a practical method of environmental performance measurement.

Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI)

EMF started a programme on introducing EPI in the Dutch industry in 1993 in cooperation with Environmental Management Consultants Group of Coopers & Lybrand, based on the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) in Washington in 1992.

EMF and Coopers & Lybrand published three articles on the subject in 1994

Environmental Performance for Banks

Based on various publications by NatWest in the late eighties and EMF's visits to NatWest, EMF approached the major banks in the Netherlands to draw their attention to the need of introducing environmental performance in their credit rating systems and in the environmental management within the banks on their own performance.

EMF's chairman published an extensive article on the subject in the Dutch Magazine, “Bankers'and Traders'Association”, December issue 1991.

Subsequently a blueprint on how to add environmental issues in credit rating systems was worked out at ING Bank in cooperation with EMF, Coopers & Lybrand Financial Services and TNO.

Although at that time this was very new, at present all major banks have implemented environmental procedures on which extensive coverage can be found on their annual reports.


Publications

'Duurzaam bankieren', Bank en Effectenbedrijf , Januari / Februari 1999

Meten en vergelijken Milieuprestaties van belang', (Measurement and benchmarking of environmental performance), Milieu Strategie, June 1994 Folkert van der Molen en Allerd Stikker

'Meten en vergelijken van de milieuprestaties van het bedrijf ', Hoofdstuk 12; Schone Kansen, Uitgave Stichting Toekomstbeeld der techniek,, Folkert van de Molen en Allerd Stikker, 1994

'Milieu in perspectief' ( Environment in Perspective); Integriteit van de Schepping ( Integrity of Creation), Bres, June 1994

'Milieuvraagstuk is een bron van vernieuwing voor de electriciteitssector', ( Environmental issues trigger change in power companies), De Ingenieur, December 1993 Amsterdam

'Sustainability and Business Management', Business Strategy and the Environment, UK, December 1992

'We hebben nog twintig jaar...', Baakbericht nr. 123, December 1992
 

'Wat heeft het mileu met de bank te maken?' (What has the environment to do with banks?) Bank en Effectenbedrijf, Amsterdam, December 1991

Interested in one of these articles, contact EMF.