Environmental awareness could boost profits

07 May 1998

Environmental awareness ‘could boost profits’

UK companies could boost their profits by doing more to protect animals, plants and micro-organisms, according to the Round Table on Sustainable Development.

It unveiled a guide to how companies could integrate nature conservation into their everyday activities. It said companies could best identify and tackle the threats they posed to the environment by adopting an environmental management system – a device that helped them cut costs and environmental risks.

• Financial Times 07/05/98 page 10