1.The social and environment effect by economic activity

1.1 Environmental footprint is the impact that a business’ activities have upon the environment including its resource consumption and pollution emissions

<1> Environment costs

a. Direct and indirect: waste management, remediation costs or expenses, compliance costs, permit fees and environmental certification, legal costs and fines, environmental training, environmentally driven R&D

b. Contingent or intangible environmental costs: compensation costs, employee health and safety with potential litigation, risk of impaired assets, reputation.

 1.2 Social footprint is the impact that a business’ activities have upon the social including communities (particularly where operations are based)，customers (product safety issues)，employees (job creation issues)，suppliers, competitors and reputation risk.