Environmental Auditing: Current Status and Solutions for Vietnam

With society's growing concern for environmental quality and the increasingly stringent legal system, there's an inevitable demand for environmental information within businesses. In recent years, environmental auditing has been recognized as a tool that provides environmental data, laying the groundwork for assessing a company's environmental risk potential, its environmental obligations, and compliance with environmental standards or regulations. The users of this audit information include the companies themselves, customers, commercial banks, credit institutions, government authorities (both central and local), as well as the general public. Environmental audits help to reduce environmental and public health risks and enhance corporate environmental management. This article introduces the UK's model of environmental auditing, offering valuable lessons for Vietnam's approach to the practice.