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C/B/3023. Review of Volkswagen Environmental Management Systems

WORDS:: 2500
DATE:: 2010
PRICE:: 29.99 GBP

This paper reviews Volkswagen’s (VW) environmental management systems, by firstly focusing on the major environmental issues currently impacting the company, like climate change and scarcity of resources. The paper explains Environmental Management systems, followed by an evaluation of VW’s strategy. The paper then goes on to analyse the Corporate CO2 Steering Group, which oversees the volume of carbon dioxide that is emitted from production across VW’s product portfolio. Environmental performance indicators are analysed, discussing sustainability reporting, Awards and recognitions. The paper discusses the 5R’s, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover and Reclaim, which is a system of waste management. VW is benchmarked against rival car manufacturers, and the paper concludes with recommendations for VW.

KEYWORDS: Volkswagen, VW, environmental management systems, climate change, resources, corporate CO2 steering group, carbon dioxide, product portfolio, environmental performance indicators, sustainability reporting, awards and recognitions, reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, reclaim, benchmarking,