Turn Your Environmental Compliance and GHG Management Risk into Business Success
Ever-increasing environmental regulations, financial risk disclosures, emerging greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting as well as other stakeholder pressures make environmental compliance and GHG management and reporting both a complex and tedious task. According to a study, 66% of environmental managers’ time is spent on information gathering and sorting and sharing which forces the industry to spend 64% of their environmental management budget in these efforts. To address these issues, a growing number of environmentally proactive companies turn to Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS). An EMIS is a computer application that gathers, communicates, manipulates, analyzes, reports and stores Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) data to meet compliance and performance tracking needs.
Starting from an in-house IT developed EMIS to vendor off-the-shelf EMIS behind the company fire-wall, the latest breed of EMIS are internet based EMIS platforms. The internet based EMIS platforms have functionality and tools that once employed properly in a well thought design can result into an effective EMIS for an organization that can be highly flexible, cost effective, configurable and scalable to grow with the organization and emerging regulatory needs.
An analogy to the internet based EMIS platform is that of a canvas, paint and a brush which when placed in the hands of a highly skilled and experienced artist can result in a master piece. On the other hand, a poorly conceived design by an amateur artist may transpire into a product without any value. Similarly, merely by acquiring a canvas, paint and a brush (the tools) does not always mean that one must also learn to paint one’s own picture, instead you may hire a skilled and accomplished artist to use your equipment to make the desired picture of your needs. The skilled and experienced artists at Polar Design Studio using half the time and resources in comparison to others can build an EMIS landscape of your organization fitting your needs and configured to your organization’s vision and imagination….
At Polar Design Studio using the Enviance internet based EMIS platform we can build an EMIS System for your organization that will meet your environmental compliance and GHG management needs with a low capital investment, rapid implementation cycle, low IT resource burden, and a seamless interface among various EH&S media that can be integrated with other systems. An EMIS system will serve the complexities of your regional and global operations such as collecting information from different data sources, using multiple emissions calculations factors and methods and conforming to reporting protocols and standards. Our approach for building an EMIS of your needs, meeting your organization management culture, processes and emerging environmental and GHG management risk is illustrated by the flow diagram below:
