GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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Environmental Accounting
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A system for providing accurate and quantitative measures of the costs and resulting effects, efficiency and effectiveness of investments in environmental preservation activities. The benefit of undertaking a corporate environmental accounting initiative is that the identification and greater awareness of environment-related costs often provides the opportunity to find ways to reduce or avoid these costs, while also improving environmental performance.
(Adapted from the Environment Australia website, QLD EPA)
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