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What is Ozone Layer Erosion

Modern Regulations and Practices for Social and Environmental Accounting
The ozone layer is a region of Earth's stratosphere that protects human beings and other living things by absorbing the harmful ultraviolet radiation coming from the Sun. The erosion of the ozone layer is the gradual thinning of the layer due to manufactured chemicals, such as manufactured halocarbon refrigerants, propellants, solvents, and foam blowing agents.
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Challenges and Threats to Environmental Accounting and Reporting
Derya Üçoğlu (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9410-0.ch001
Abstract
Conventional accounting practices are not sufficient to provide the necessary information demanded by the stakeholders. By environmental accounting and reporting, valuable information regarding the effects of activities of companies on the environment are identified and disclosed. Environmental accounting and reporting have numerous advantages, such as providing a basis for more efficient decision-making processes, optimization of company value, improved corporate image, and increased customer loyalty and investor trust. On the other hand, this chapter mainly focuses on the challenges and threats to environmental accounting and reporting and discusses the possible solutions to the problems identified and recommendations provided by prior literature.
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