Environmental impact evaluation method for research and development themes

摘要

Environmental management systems (EMS) for the activities, products, and services of an organization, including research institutions, are described in the standards related with environment of International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Though there are some publications concerned with EMS according to this standards, there are no clear ways for evaluating environmental impact applicable to R&D themes.With a view to securing environmental certification of ISO 14001 standard, we have developed a new environmental impact evaluation method for R&D themes at Toshiba's R&D Center. In this report, we present this environmental impact evaluation method forR&D themes.