1. Environment: Surrounding in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural 
resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation. 2. Environmental Aspect: Element of an organization’s activities or products or services that interacts or 
can interact with the environment 
3. Environmental Impact: Change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially 
resulting from an organization’s environmental aspect
4. Significant Environmental Aspect: An environmental aspect can cause an environmental impact. A significant environmental aspect is one that has or can have one or more significant environmental 
impact
5. Environmental Objective: Overall environmental goal, consistent with the environmental policy, that an 
organization sets itself to achieve. 6.