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• To give the participants a broad understanding of the environment and to help
them in developing an understanding of how the governments are responding to various
environmental issues
• To equip the participants with the best practices and the contemporary principles
and practices of environment audit and to discuss issues and challenges being faced
by various SAls in integrating environment audits with other audits.
• To take participants on a step by step journey through the process of environment
audit and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skill set to be able to
conduct and supervise environment audits
• To provide a forum to the participants for sharing their ideas and experience
with various experts in this field. |
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Lectures, Group Discussions, Case Studies
Field Visits
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• Understanding the state of environment and the ecosystem
• Responses to the environmental concerns
• Natural Resource Accounting and allied concepts
• Environmental Auditing - the challenges
• Multilateral Environmental Accords and other international treaties and the audit
issues concerning these accords
• Basics of wastes issues, waste handling and international agreements and related
audit issues
• Air pollution issues, global warming and other concerns and related audit issues
• Audit of biodiversity and case studies thereon
• Basic concepts of Environmental Management Systems and introduction to ISO-14000
series
• Sustainable Development and the role of SAls
• Audit techniques including statistical sampling and Computer Assisted Audit Techniques
• Case studies. |
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A broad framework for the case study could include the following:
• Organisation and system of environment audit and major environmental issues and
threats being faced in their countries.
• Legislations, Policies, Rules and Regulations relating to environment protection.
This includes both domestic legislation as well as names of important international
conventions/protocols signed by their respective countries.
• Case study relating to environment audit covering institutional network for environment
protection in the respective country (i.e., Ministries/Departments/other Agencies,
both government and non-government, and their roles and responsibilities).
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