Environmental Policy

Environmental policy is the pledge by governments or organizations to adopt laws, regulations and other policy tools aimed at addressing environmental issues. The cited article says these typically involve air and water pollution, waste management, ecosystem management, biodiversity conservation, the management of natural resources and safeguarding wildlife and endangered species, and that policies concerning energy or the regulation of toxic substances, including pesticides and many types of industrial waste, are part of the topic. Such policy can be deliberately taken to influence human activities and so prevent undesirable effects on the biophysical environment and natural resources, and to make sure that changes in the environment do not have unacceptable effects on humans. Policies grouped under this entry are those on the environment.