Environmental Justice: Corporate strategies to protect communities

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An expert guide to identifying, addressing, and supporting environmental justice to protect vulnerable communities from harm.

Marina Dorileo Barros Paula Galbiatti Silveira

by Marina Dorileo, Paula Galbiatti Silveira

The rise of environmental justice

Environmental justice is a concept rooted in ensuring that no community — regardless of race, income, or political power — is disproportionately burdened by environmental damage. 

For businesses operating globally, environmental justice isn’t just a moral imperative — it’s a strategic necessity.

In this eBook, Enhesa experts Paula Galbiatti Silveira and Marina Dorileo explore the impact of environmental harm on vulnerable populations, highlight its evolution, and reiterate the growing urgency of addressing environmental injustice in the face of global challenges.

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See how environmental injustice impacts Indigenous people, migrants, and low-income communities.

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Trace the origin of environmental justice and its evolution into climate and ecological justice.

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Identify actionable corporate strategies for businesses to advance environmental justice.

Environmental justice isn’t only about minimizing harm; it’s also about promoting equity in how environmental benefits and burdens are shared.

Marina Dorileo and Paula Galbiatti Silveira Enhesa experts

Environmental injustice is a phenomenon of disproportionate imposition of environmental risks or harms on populations less endowed with financial, political, and informational resources. 

Find out how this concept has evolved over time.

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Environmental justice in a corporate context means ensuring that no community, group, or population especially marginalized and vulnerable ones bears a disproportionate share of negative environmental impacts resulting from their own operations, products, or supply chains.  

Discover the role businesses can play in enhancing environmental justice.

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Compliance ensures companies meet legal obligations in their operations by setting requisite environmental, health and safety (EHS) requirements, human rights obligations and standards, and by only allowing safe and sustainable products on the market.

Unpack the challenges and opportunities of developing a strategy for environmental justice.

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