Cleaner Production Audit Study

Environmental Auditing is one of the environment management tools, which can be used to audit environmental performance of organization. It was bom in the 1970's. With the development of the auditing, there are varieties of the auditing used in different cases.The auditing can be mainly divided into Cleaner Production Auditing (CPA), Contaminated land Auditing (property transfer auditing (PTA)) and Environment Management System Auditing (EMSA) and so on. CPA aims to check environmental performance for whole process of production. It is an extension of life circle assessment. While PTA is used to examine environmental liability before property transfer, and EMSA is to audit an organization environmental management system-a system of whole responsibilities for environmental performance.CPA is a basement and an essential part of all kind of environmental Auditing. It is a key measure for pollution prevention and also for pollution control. And because industrial pollution is the main source of pollution, it is an important tool to realize the sustainable development of economy and environment.So, this paper mainly study at the CPA. At first, it reviews development of CPA in the world; then, what is CPA and why to conduct it, and how to do it; at the last, to discuss the strategies of the development for the industries in China.The main contents of my study are including the followings:Part â… : Reviewing the development of CPA in the world;Part â…¡: Introducing the concept and vitality of CPA, and clear up some misunderstanding about it.Part â…¢: How to do CPA. What is the relationship between CPA and EMS, and then auditing procedures is introduced.Part â…£: Pointing out some problems for the auditing development in our country, such as lack of driving forces.Part â…¤: Some strategies and measures are discussed to promote the auditing development in China.This paper has two distinguishable features:1. A computation program for the auditing process is given.2. Analyses of some economic measures for the promotion are discussed based on environmental economics theory, besides policy, legislative measures.