Establishment of an environmental policy that contains commitments to continual improvement, compliance, and pollution prevention, environmental planning to identify significant environmental impacts, controlling these activities to minimize their impact on the environment; and setting environmental performance objectives and targets and tracking progress toward meeting them. Sustainability management systems are similar, but go one step further in that they provide a sustainability-based framework on which to base the targets developed by the EMS. One example is the combination of TNS with EMS.