Whether it’s reducing the consumption of energy, improving the management of wastewater, reducing the greenhouse gas emissions or rehabilitating degraded lands, there are many reasons for companies to opt for an environmental performance software.
In this post, we discuss how companies can make sure their efforts will get the expected results. How software can provide the necessary assistance to improve the quality of the decision made by managers. And finally, this blog outlines the advantages of using such a software.
How can a company know if its efforts are sufficient to reach its environmental goals?
Enters the broad field of environmental performances. This concept relates to both the internal and external processes in a company.
To help assess this performance companies develop environmental performance indicators (EPI). These can be employed to determine a company’s level of compliance with the standards and legislation in place.
For more information on how to measure the success of your sustainability you may be interested by that other article.
Read how a mining company in Peru is using Boréalis to track Environmental Performance Indicators and compliance to strict governmental regulations
How environmental performance software helps companies manage their impact
The main challenge facing managers is to obtain reliable information necessary for making strategic decisions regarding the protection of the environment. Companies can turn to information management systems that specialize in the assessment and analysis of environmental performances.
Environmental performance software such as Boréalis:
- Help to manage data on the processes and on the environmental impacts of the company’s activities.
- Provide managers with a clear vision of problems and assist them in making strategic decisions.
- Allow comparing a variety of data over many years which is a considerable asset in the context of continuous improvement.
Find below a dashboard from Boréalis for the environmental monitoring of a typical mining site.
As you can see, the information can be visualized in different formats. In that specific case, a geographical map is used to display alerts by sites.
What are the advantages of using an environmental performance software
Environmental performance software help to develop, coordinate and communicate strategic environmental priorities.
They also highlight critical issues to management, improve resource management and measure the impact of environmental actions.
Using an environmental performance management system, such as Boréalis has the advantage of helping to improve the financial performance of companies by identifying material environmental risks, finding ways to reduce environmental impacts and determining the resulting financial gains.
