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This study aims to explore the role of government environmental auditing in promoting China’s coordinated goals of “pollution reduction, carbon mitigation, ecological expansion, and growth.” By analyzing 1959 panel data from 227 prefecture-level cities in China between 2011 and 2022, a four-dimensional evaluation framework was constructed, and empirical testing was carried out using a double machine learning method. The results indicate that environmental auditing significantly enhances the synergy of environmental governance, mainly by raising public environmental awareness, promoting industrial clustering, and fostering green innovation. Additionally, green finance provides complementary support to this process. This effect is particularly pronounced in regions with higher levels of marketization, more developed financial technology, and greater environmental expenditure. Based on these findings, this study concludes that environmental auditing plays a crucial role in promoting China’s coordinated goals of “pollution reduction, carbon mitigation, ecological expansion, and growth.” In particular, environmental auditing demonstrates its institutional value in promoting sustainable governance, especially in developing economies.

How to Convert Sustainability Disclosure into Action New standards such as those of the International Sustainability Standards Board and new regulations from the Securities and Exchange Commission are challenging companies to increase and improve their disclosure on what they are doing to support sustainability for their Environmental, Social and Governance activities. Companies are responding by changing their controls and procedures to include sustainability processes. But is this enough? For companies that truly want to help with sustainability issues, the answer is no. What is needed is the more action-oriented approach laid out in this book, which: * Enables modifying the corporate strategic plans to include real sustainability actions. * Makes use of the skills developed in providing sustainability disclosures, such as integrated thinking. * Includes proper adoption of recognized standards for control procedures recognized by regulatory authorities. * Adapts traditional management change tools, such as SWOT and the Porter Five Forces Model to include sustainability. * Shows how to move the company from sustainability disclosure to integrated thinking to Corporate Social Responsibility. Beyond Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Thinking and Corporate Social Responsibility is a must-read for any company wanting to make a strong contribution to sustainability issues, for educators who wish to teach sustainability issues and how to manage them, and for anyone interested in knowing how companies can develop a strong and successful action-oriented program for sustainability.

Explores the unifying and universal principles at the heart of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) wherever it may be practiced worldwide. This overview of the field by Angus Morrison-Saunders emphasizes the big ideas upon which EIA was founded and which remain central to theory and practice today. In a nutshell, EIA is essentially about thinking before acting.

Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written by two of the world's leading experts in the field in order to provide the most comprehensive and state-of-the-art textbook on environmental accounting yet attempted. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers, professional accountants, and corporate and organisational managers. Although no prior knowledge of environmental accounting is necessary to understand the critical issues at stake, academic accountants will also find that the book provides a useful introduction to the topic. The goals of the book are to discuss and illustrate contemporary conceptual approaches to environmental accounting; to make readers aware of crucial controversial topics; and to offer practical examples of how the concepts have been applied throughout Europe, North America and Australia. In order to increase the usefulness of the book for relevant courses, each chapter concludes with a set of questions for review. This book is essential reading for all those who are interested in how environmental issues influence accounting.A solutions manual is available on request with the purchase of this book. ... as a reference text and as a text to stimulate and to prompt us into other ways of thinking, this book is a really substantial addition to the literature and deserves very serious attention. - Social and Environmental Accounting || The authors have compiled and structured the existing concepts of environmental accounting very thoroughly ... The book addresses students, controllers and business leaders equally. Although the structure helps readers without any prior knowledge of environmental accounting to get an overview, the book also provides a compendium for experts who want to look up something ... the book is therefore a clear buy. - Ökologisches Wirtschaften || ... two of the world's foremost experts on the subject have come together to write the definitive book on environmental accounting. Engaging and accessible, this book is suitable for academics and professionals alike. - World Resources Institute's Envirolink Newsletter || It provides a comprehensive and well structured overview. - Corporate Environmental Strategy || In essence, this book is essential reading for all those who are interested in how environmental issues influence accounting. - Sustain magazine || This is a new and welcome addition to the growing material on environmental accounting ... whilst hardly the lightest of topics the writers manage to break down the concepts into fairly user-friendly form, drawing out principal ways for incorporating environmental elements into accounting systems. - Connections – UNED Forum Quarterly Newsletter || ... it is a book worth taking seriously ... Anyone who is not sure of what is meant by \"eco-efficiency\" will be hard pressed to find a better explanation ... In particular, there is good, balanced discussion of life cycle assessment as the most common model in use in environmental information management, and how it might be improved to make it a more effective and efficient management tool ... this book is an invaluable resource for anyone who is involved or interested in how accounting is influenced by environmental issues. - Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management <

\"A practical guide for facility engineers and managers to understand the impact of environmental regulations when applied to operating equipment in any industry or facility. It lays out a clear road map on how to gain knowledge on most essential steps and how to use the proper tools included. Based on author's 39-year experience, this concise material discusses real life applications and case studies that have been adopted and implemented successfully in many facilities in NYC and which are appropriate for large cities. It will help facility engineers comply with various rules and regulations of the jurisdictions of EPA, state, city, and local agencies and properly itemize reporting requirements\"-- Provided by publisher.

If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into their decision-making and reporting. However, the translation of this aspiration into effective action is often inhibited by the lack of systems and procedures that take sustainability into account. Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights will help organizations to address these issues. The book sets out a number of tools and approaches that have been developed and applied by leading organizations to: embed sustainability into decision-making, extending beyond an organization's boundaries to take into account suppliers, customers and other stakeholders; measure and link sustainability and financial performance; integrate sustainability into 'mainstream' reporting, both to management and external stakeholders. In-depth cases studies from Aviva, BT, the Environment Agency, EDF Energy, HSBC, Novo Nordisk, Sainsbury's and West Sussex County Council show in detail how accounting for sustainability works in practice in a wide range of organizational contexts. Published with The Prince's Charities: Accounting for Sustainability

\"This textbook provides readers with the fundamentals and the intent of environmental regulations so that compliance can be greatly improved and streamlined. Through numerous examples and case studies it explains concepts from how environmental laws are applied and work, to why pollution prevention and sustainability are critical for the future of all life on Earth. It is organized to accommodate different needs for students with different backgrounds and career choices. It is also useful for site safety managers, research technicians, and other young professionals wanting to apply environmental regulations to their facilities and staying up to date on recently changed regulations\"-- Provided by publisher.

Environment management and protection are top global priorities, but little is known about the reporting in regions of Africa. The six papers in this volume provide much needed information for academics, practitioners and policy makers about environmental accounting and management in Africa.