Does being green benefit the bottom line?
Does being green benefit the bottom line?
- 2001
- ENDS Report 317 June 2001, 18-20(3) .
Discusses the MEPI project, funded by the European Commission, which measured the location, profitability and size of a sample of European companies against their environmental performance. Whilst only weak, sector specific associations were found between profit and performance the study revealed that those companies producing higher volumes of waste had lower profit margins.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
EMISSIONS
MEPI
POLLUTION
PROFITS
PROFITABILITY
WASTE
Discusses the MEPI project, funded by the European Commission, which measured the location, profitability and size of a sample of European companies against their environmental performance. Whilst only weak, sector specific associations were found between profit and performance the study revealed that those companies producing higher volumes of waste had lower profit margins.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
EMISSIONS
MEPI
POLLUTION
PROFITS
PROFITABILITY
WASTE