IFC Performance Standard 1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts
Performance Standard 1 underscores the importance of managing environmental and social performance throughout the life of a project. An effective Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) is a dynamic and continuous process initiated and supported by management, and involves engagement between the client, its workers, local communities directly affected by the project (the Affected Communities) and, where appropriate, other stakeholders.
[Published: 2012]
Conservation Management, Standards, Agriculture and Ranching, Global