THE RELATION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ORGANISATIONS SUSTAINABILITY- A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Environmental protection is the primary objective to accomplish sustainable development of organizations and also to build an eco-friendly world for the present and for the generations to come. Environmental management is a primary element of sustainable development; it is progressively seen as responsibility of businesses. Currently most of the organizations are involving voluntarily to reduce the activities that may cause adverse effect on the environment. Organizations have to consider its stakeholders along with its ethical view. Thus, coordinated approaches like environmental management systems plays major role in environmental and sustainability problems. Hence, there is a need to have a better understanding of the relationship between environment management systems and the sustainability. The aim of this study is to review the EMS and Sustainability and relation between these two. To maintain transparency, this systematic review has undergone with a qualitative screening approach i.e. PRISMA 2020 flow diagram. Out of 541 articles including a book identified 40 were screened for systematic literature review. The findings of the study indicates that Environmental Management System is one of the utmost efficient ways to reduce an organization’s environmental impact and to increase organizations sustainability through its systematic, cyclic, planned and documented set of processes.

Key words: Environment Management System, Organization Sustainability, ISO 14001, PRISMA 2020, Stake holders, Top Management.