environmental audit

noun

1. the systematic examination of an organization's interaction with the environment, to assess the success of its conservation or antipollution programme

Example Sentences

The government has commissioned an environmental audit of the impact of the oil industry, but the results are yet to be made public more than a year later than expected.

From BBC

Professor Lea Berrang Ford of the UK Health Security Agency told the Environmental Audit Committee there is insufficient evidence that naming heatwaves is effective.

From BBC

Philip Dunne MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, called the labelling findings a potentially very serious allegation.

From BBC

"Delaying the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars is disappointing, but reflects the reality that this is where most of the major car manufacturing nations are," said Britain's environmental audit committee chairman Philip Dunne.

From Reuters

And while it is not just a problem in the UK, one statistic from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee is particularly shocking: 14% of rivers and lakes in England are considered safe to swim in.

From BBC