Environmental management — Guidelines for environmental due diligence assessment

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This document provides principles, requirements and guidelines for footprint communications for products addressing areas of concern relating to the environment.

This document gives guidance on how to conduct an environmental due diligence (EDD) assessment through a systematic process of identifying environmental aspects, issues and conditions as well as determining, if appropriate, their business consequences.

This document does not provide guidance on how to conduct other types of environmental assessment, such as:

1. environmental audits;
2. environmental impact assessments;
3. environmental performance, efficiency, or reliability assessment;
4. intrusive environmental investigations and
5. FDBNS ISO 14015;2022 ed.2 – v03