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This article focuses on certified B Corporations in Atlantic Canada and attempts to understand the benefits in being certified. Telephone interviews and a questionnaire were used to solicit recipients’ feedback on the delivery of their brand promises and overall satisfaction of the benefits to being certified. The study finds that the main motivation behind being certified is validation in the market that the business is adhering to certain social and environmental standards. Interviewees view certification as a strategy to demonstrate that their corporate social responsibility activities are being performed as promised. This article shows how organizations that have opted in to holding the certification as a unique differentiator distinguish themselves from other companies in the marketplace. Résumé Cet article porte sur les entreprises du Canada atlantique ayant obtenu la certification « B Corp ». Il cherche à comprendre les avantages de celle-ci. Des entrevues téléphoniques et un questionnaire ont été utilisés pour solliciter les commentaires de représentants d’organismes certifiés sur la réalisation des promesses de la certification « B Corp » et leur satisfaction globale relative à celle-ci. L’étude montre que la principale motivation pour obtenir la certification est de se faire reconnaître sur le marché comme une entreprise qui adhère à certaines normes sociales et environnementales. Les personnes interrogées considèrent la certification comme une stratégie visant à démontrer que leurs entreprises réalisent leurs activités de responsabilité sociale comme promis. Cet article montre comment les organisations qui ont choisi de détenir la certification comme un facteur de différenciation unique se distinguent des autres entreprises sur le marché. Keywords / Mots clés : B Corporation, B Lab, environmental standards, social standards, corporate social responsibility / B Corporation, B Lab, normes environnementales, normes sociales, responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise

Environmental management systems are usually associated with the industry, considered to be the major polluters of the environment. This article presents the need to implement such a system in higher education institutions, starting from its regulations and demonstrating the possible similarity of universities with a large economic entity. Some examples of good practice are also presented. The conclusions present the importance of the role of the academic community and the opportunity to integrate an environmental management system with the other specific management systems, existing at the level of universities.

The article deals with the features of management of environmental processes and the specifics of the law enforcement of environmental standards in the resource-producing region in the context of modern socio-economic transformations. The solution of environmental safety problems is due to the presence of an integrated approach to the management of legal entities involved in production and information processes in the region. The position is substantiated an integrated approach, including mechanisms for managing environmental and social processes should be formalized in a regional environmental doctrine with an effective and relevant regulatory framework. The key principle of such a regulatory system is the ability to take into account and coordinate the main trends of global processes, regulatory requirements and development goals of the state, as well as the characteristics of the region and the needs of its inhabitants. The issues of law enforcement of environmental standards and their impact on the ecosystem in order to cause the least harm to environment, health and genetic fund of person (society), levelling its consequences are considered. The need to take into account the sociocultural characteristics and value orientations of the inhabitants of the region when developing regulatory practices is emphasized. It is substantiated the regional environmental doctrine with relevant normative content will be a system-forming factor ensures the practical implementation of mechanisms for effective regulation of the activities of subsoil use entities and the development of safe infrastructure in theresource-producing region.

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The overall aim of this paper lies on presenting a short pragmatic image of the main aspects concerning the impact of international trade on the environment, on the one hand, and the impact of environmental policies and regulations on the international trade, on the other hand. Also, this article examines the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) focused on the use of environmental trade measures. In the same context, we discuss about the most important international institution with the regulatory powers in international trade – environment relationship which is considered to be GATT/WTO.Although, the international trade-environment relationship is a very debated internationally, in Romania it is not sufficiently addressed either theoretical or practical. Taking into account the transition period and the consequences of the global economic crisis which still will affect Romania a period of time; our country promotes simultaneous strengthening and optimizing of trade and environmental policies in sustainable development framework.

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