Environmental Corporate Management for Environmental Globalization

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There has been a major paradigm shift in environmental management activities worldwide, especially in the field of industries. The new paradigm is "Eco-production" while the former paradigm was the "Environmental Protection". What caused this movement is Eco-product Policies newly introduced or prepared in various nations, like ELV and RoHS directives (both are chemical substance restrictions for products on European market). Triggered by the major global company's countermeasures against these policies, huge-scaled chaining of environmentally conscious procurement have emerged in not only global but also domestic markets. This paper summarizes current major issues of environmental management considering this paradigm shift, and proposes solutions by integrating IT systems with environmental corporate governance.