With awareness of the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becoming ever greater, more measures are being taken to prevent air and marine pollution, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems. Such measures go beyond the minimum requirements set forth in international conventions and standards to include more advanced technologies as well as stricter criteria. As a means of evaluating these efforts especially as they effect shipboard operations, ClassNK has developed criteria for evaluating ships that have introduced environmental measures in areas where requirements based on international conventions or standards do not yet exist or have not yet been made mandatory. In conjunction with this, the Society began issuing Certificates of Environmental Awareness in June 2008. In order to make the above evaluation process easier to understand and implement, relevant requirements have been amended so that evaluations of environmental measures adopted onboard are indicated as a notation affixed to ship classification characters. In addition, the evaluation criteria have been revised and published as “Environmental Guideline.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
ClassNK Environmental Awareness Notation
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, also known as ClassNK, has introduced a new notation for ships that meet the standards described in the Society’s just recently published Environmental Guideline.
With awareness of the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becoming ever greater, more measures are being taken to prevent air and marine pollution, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems. Such measures go beyond the minimum requirements set forth in international conventions and standards to include more advanced technologies as well as stricter criteria. As a means of evaluating these efforts especially as they effect shipboard operations, ClassNK has developed criteria for evaluating ships that have introduced environmental measures in areas where requirements based on international conventions or standards do not yet exist or have not yet been made mandatory. In conjunction with this, the Society began issuing Certificates of Environmental Awareness in June 2008. In order to make the above evaluation process easier to understand and implement, relevant requirements have been amended so that evaluations of environmental measures adopted onboard are indicated as a notation affixed to ship classification characters. In addition, the evaluation criteria have been revised and published as “Environmental Guideline.Read More
With awareness of the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becoming ever greater, more measures are being taken to prevent air and marine pollution, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems. Such measures go beyond the minimum requirements set forth in international conventions and standards to include more advanced technologies as well as stricter criteria. As a means of evaluating these efforts especially as they effect shipboard operations, ClassNK has developed criteria for evaluating ships that have introduced environmental measures in areas where requirements based on international conventions or standards do not yet exist or have not yet been made mandatory. In conjunction with this, the Society began issuing Certificates of Environmental Awareness in June 2008. In order to make the above evaluation process easier to understand and implement, relevant requirements have been amended so that evaluations of environmental measures adopted onboard are indicated as a notation affixed to ship classification characters. In addition, the evaluation criteria have been revised and published as “Environmental Guideline.
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