How environmental management can deliver value for organisations

February 2025

Good environmental management – including the processes and structures that are put in place – has never been so important to help organisations keep up with environmental challenges, regulations and risk.

Good environmental management practice underpins how organisations are able to reduce their energy use, meet net zero targets, and start to understand their impacts on biodiversity and nature.

This new paper How environmental management can deliver value to organisations, aimed at senior executives and managers not working in environmental and sustainability roles, sets out the case for environmental management as the bedrock of sustainability and as a high value asset in effective organisational administration. The paper takes the reader through:

– Planning for the future

– Risks and opportunities associated with environmental management

– The value that environmental management provides to an organisation

– Materiality

– The stages of cultural maturity.

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Effective environmental management can help meet regulatory requirements but also to understand the context of the organisation. It can improve organisational reputation and make it more attractive in tendering or as part of a supply chain.

In terms of process, an environmental management system can create a procedure that is replicable over time, across sites and across peers. It can help create more efficient processes, identify new innovations, and importantly - save money.

If you want to raise awareness of the benefits of an environmental management system to your organisation, with your senior management teams, this paper is a great source of information that you can share.

ISEP members can download their FREE copy here.

Non-members can purchase the guide from the ISEP shop


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Lesley Wilson AISEP

Policy and Engagement Lead

Lesley is Policy and Engagement Lead at ISEP with a focus on the rapidly developing area of biodiversity and natural capital. On behalf of ISEP, Lesley also supports and is a member of the Steering Group of the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum. Lesley has worked in environmental sustainability for 15 years and previously delivered programmes and solutions in sustainability for business at the British Standards Institution, including ground breaking standards in biodiversity net gain and natural capital. Lesley has a qualifications in business management (MBA) and climate change management, and mentors environmental students at the University of Westminster.