1.The social and environment effect by economic activity
1.1 Environmental footprint is the impact that a business’ activities have upon the environment including its resource consumption and pollution emissions
<1> Environment costs
a. Direct and indirect: waste management, remediation costs or expenses, compliance costs, permit fees and environmental certification, legal costs and fines, environmental training, environmentally driven R&D
b. Contingent or intangible environmental costs: compensation costs, employee health and safety with potential litigation, risk of impaired assets, reputation.
1.2 Social footprint is the impact that a business’ activities have upon the social including communities (particularly where operations are based),customers (product safety issues),employees (job creation issues),suppliers, competitors and reputation risk.