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Foundational Environmental Performance
“Foundational Environmental Performance” refers to the essential good practices that a business must demonstrate in order to operate responsibly and sustainably. The specific criteria for including FEM questions in the Foundational Environmental Performance subset are:
- Critical legal requirements: the regulatory compliance requirements that are common across most jurisdictions, and
- Basic and foundational management practices: the foundational elements of a management system necessary to identify and prevent the most critical environmental risks.