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A survey just released by eyefortransport tells us what for most green-minded professionals seems obvious: High fuel prices are causing the country’s manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers to rethink their transportation strategies.
The British Contract Furnishing & Design Association is aiming to set a benchmark in environmental standards with a new code of best practice which includes looking at ISO 14001.
More than three quarters of consumers want higher environmental product standards from government
Check-out Carbon, published by sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, also reveals that 77 per cent of consumers want the government to set higher environmental product standards.
It has been developed to provide a much needed, clear and robust definition of good practice that can be used to judge an organisation’s commitment to and achievement of carbon reduction.
The Stockholm Environment announces the release of a comprehensive
new report on the voluntary carbon offset market.
Dr Anne-Marie Warris, who wrote VCS 2007, talks about the impacts it will have in the carbon offset market, and outlines its evolution over the last 18 months.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.
ISO 14000 is a family of international management standards (includes ISO 14001) concerned with environmental management.
They encompass what an organisation does to minimise harmful environmental effects of its activities, and require continuous improvement of environmental performance.
A report released by the World Bank yesterday at CarbonExpo in Germany announced that the global carbon offset market has tripled over the past year to $30bn. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme accounted for $25bn of this total.
The new standard, ISO 14065:2007, ‘Greenhouse gases - Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition’, complements the previous standard.
I attended a standards writing meeting this week - yawn you may say - but actually it was very interesting (in parts). The meeting was about a new standard BS8901 which is about Sustainable Events Management.
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