79562 - Social Environmental Reporting

Learning outcomes

-A broad vision of resources consumption and management, and of production's environmental, health and social impacts

- A general understanding of the Principles and Standards of Environmental Management Systems

- Understanding the use in production and organization’s practice of the main tools of Environmental Auditing and Accounting

- CASE STUDY: Understanding the social relevance of applying EMS&CSR to Waste Management

- Focus on CRS and Life Cycle Assessment of waste management.

- Principles of Risk communication

Course contents

Corporate Social Responsibility:

• Including sustainability targets and objectives in performance evaluation. Understand what drives higher levels of value to both shareholders and society.

Environmental Auditing:

• Monitoring and reporting sustainability performance.
• Review current sustainability initiatives and the state of their implementation: special reference to international accounting principles, Global Reporting Initiative, UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, ULE 880, SASB, IIRC.
• The IS0 14000 series; the EMAS system; Life Cycle Assessment of products and services.

Focus on Waste Management:

• What composes on Integrated Sustainable Waste Management and its industrial components.
• Life Cycle Assessment of integrated WM systems: environmental impacts.
• Criteria of risk analysis and risk representation by stakeholders.
• Tools to support the public discussion of the accounted environmental and social impacts.

Principles of Risk Communication.

Readings/Bibliography

Accounting for Sustainability. Practical Insights., Edited by Anthony Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman and Jessica Fries, Earthscan, New York, 2010, selected chapters;

ISO Standards briefs. GRI briefs.

Chapters from Global Waste Management Outlook – UNEP ISWA 2015.

G. Vujić et al.. 2015 “Municipal solid waste development phases: Evidence from EU27”. Waste Management & Research Vol. 33(12) 1112–1120.

 

 

Teaching methods

On ground.

Experts will present case studies of Environmental Auditing.

Assessment methods

Intermediate comprehension test on case studies of CSR report. Final (written and oral) exam: written texts on two selected questions to be delivered 48 hours before the day of the oral exam.

Teaching tools

Blackboard.

Links to further information

http://www.riskandsolutions.eu/?lang=en_us

Office hours

See the website of Simonetta Tunesi