Environmental auditing provides information on a company's environmental performance by assessing the harm caused by its activities, wastes, and noise. Audits must be independent, objective, credible, and transparent. Auditing helps reduce environmental problems, improves a company's image and practices, and increases awareness and efficient resource use. The auditing process involves planning, choosing a team, inspecting sites, analyzing results, and evaluating. Environmental ethics ask humans to respect and protect nature, and get along with it through established rules. Major environmental issues include depletion of resources, population growth, pollution, and global warming. Solutions include creating awareness, changing activities, optimizing consumption, managing waste, planting, and environmental education.