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Environmental management system (EMS) refers to the management of an organization's environmental programs in a comprehensive, systematic, planned and documented manner. It includes the organisational structure, planning and resources for developing, implementing and maintaining policy for environmental protection.

An Environmental Management System (EMS):


 * Serves as a tool to improve environmental performance
 * Provides a systematic way of managing an organization’s environmental affairs
 * Is the aspect of the organization’s overall management structure that addresses immediate and long-term impacts of its products, services and processes on the environment
 * Gives order and consistency for organizations to address environmental concerns through the allocation of resources, assignment of responsibility and ongoing evaluation of practices, procedures and processes
 * Focuses on continual improvement of the system

What is CEMIS?
Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) are information systems that enable enterprises to collect, record, process, manage, analyze and archive the environmental relevant information systematically. The organizations use CEMIS to generate the necessary reports especially in compliance with the requirements of local environmental authorities.

A CEMIS:
 * Enable enterprises to record, process and analyze the environmental relevant information systematically.
 * Facilitate storing, managing, analyzing and archivning of environment related information of the organizations
 * Including systematic collecting, recording and processing of environmentally relevant information

A CEMIS should:
 * Provide the required information for environmental or sustainability management.
 * Support the idea of sustainable development in a company and take a holistic and strategic approach towards material and energy efficiency, emission and waste reduction, recycling, stakeholder engagement, and legal compliance

Definitions

 * 1) Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) enable enterprises to record, process and analyze the environmental relevant information systematically. (p. 214)
 * 2) CEMIS are information systems that include a variety of tools and technologies to facilitate storing, managing, analyzing and archivning of environment related information of the organizations. […] CEMIS allow the conversion of environmental data into environmental information (p. 224)
 * 3) The organizations use CEMIS to generate the necessary reports especially in compliance with the requirements of local environmental authorities. (p. 225)
 * 4) CEMIS is an extensive environmental-protection-oriented information system including systematic collecting, recording and processing of environmentally relevant information. (p. 396)
 * 5) CEMIS should provide the required information for environmental or sustainability management.
 * 6) The following new definition of CEMIS can be suggested: CEMIS 2.0 are information systems that support the idea of sustainable development in a company and take a holistic and strategic approach towards material and energy  efficiency, emission and waste reduction, recycling, stakeholder engagement, and legal compliance. (p. xxii)

Operational and Internal

 * Improved overall performance and efficiency.
 * Able to monitor and reflect (audit) your business and see which areas need intervention

Standards
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