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First Environment Issues Sustainability Report
BOONTON, NJ, January 19, 2004 - First Environment, Inc., a strategic environmental management consulting firm, is pleased to announce the release of its first CERES Sustainability Report, which addresses environmental and social policies, systems and performance. The report was published in support of the firm's endorsement of the CERES principles, a commitment that the firm made in October 2001.
"First Environment's endorsement of the CERES Principles signifies that the firm is committed to learning by doing and leading by example", said Tod Delaney, First Environment's president. "The firm is proud to share its report with interested stakeholders and other service organizations that hope to take a similarly proactive position towards environmental management issues."
CERES is a coalition of leading U.S. environmental, investor, and advocacy groups working together for a sustainable future. The CERES Principles are a ten-point code of environmental conduct that encourages companies to commit to continual improvement in their environmental performance. The CERES Principles, endorsed by more than 70 companies including American Airlines, Coca-Cola USA, General Motors, Interface Corporation, and Ben & Jerry's Homemade, represent a voluntary commitment to continual environmental improvement that extends beyond the actions required by government regulations.
As an office-based service organization, First Environment's report addresses small business issues and the environmental impacts associated with a typical service organization. The firm's report highlights First Environment's integrated management system, which is used to address environmental, social and other sustainability issues. The report also describes First Environment's Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which is an internal effort to identify, measure and establish a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions associated with First Environment activities. The report contains summaries of First Environment's greenhouse gas emissions inventory information for energy use, business travel and office supply consumption.
"While Wall Street tends to undervalue 'off-balance sheet' issues like firms' environmental management, CERES has always believed that what gets measured gets managed. With this report, First Environment is leading the way in incorporating environmental indicators like water and energy use into the overall costs and impact of doing business," said Mindy S. Lubber, executive director of CERES.
The report was written, edited, and produced entirely by First Environment staff and printed on 20% post-consumer recycled material. The compilation of information contained in the firm's first CERES report represents a major milestone in the firm's stakeholder relationship program. First Environment's 2002 CERES Report is available at http://www.firstenvironment.com/html/aboutus
First Environment, Inc. delivers environmental consulting services internationally, with a professional staff consisting of engineers, environmental scientists, attorneys, economists, business and policy strategists, and management system experts. In 1997, First Environment became the first U.S. environmental consulting firm to be certified to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System standard.
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First Environment, Inc.
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