Environmental Management Systems are NOT on the staircase. EMS is simply a system for organization
of environmental affairs and actions, not action itself. An EMS can address only one step on the staircase
or the whole staircase, depending on the choices made by managers. The relationship of EMS and the ISO
14001 EMS standard to the other concepts is framework to action. One could say that EMS holds the
staircase up; how high the staircase is depends on the vision and ambition of leaders