Resources and Links

Climate Change

ISO Documents
NEW!! ISO 14064 DRAFT Greenhouse gases – Part 1: Specification for the quantification, monitoring and reporting of organization emissions and removals

NEW!! ISO 14064 DRAFT Greenhouse gases - Part 2: Specification for the quantification, monitoring and reporting of project emissions and removals

NEW !! ISO 14064 DRAFT Greenhouse gases - Part 3: Specification with guidance for validation, verification and certification

New Work Item Proposal for Guidelines for Measuring, Reporting and Verifying Entity- and Project-Level Greenhouse Gas Emission (2002)

Final report of the ISO/TMB ad hoc group Climate change(2002)

Related Articles
NEW ! EU's Decision on establishing guidelines for the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions (2004)

ISO and Climate Change: Delivering on the Promise (2002)

ISO Ad Hoc Group on Climate Change, The State of Play (2001)

New Climate Change Work Likely for TC 207 (2001)

Is the Climate Right for Standards? (2001)

How Can an EMS Manage GHG Emissions? (2001)

ISO and Climate Change: Identifying Opportunities (2001)

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol - A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (2001)

Links
GHG Protocol Initiative

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Water Management

ISO Documents
TC224 WG2 (Service to Users) Working Draft 2 (2004)

Proposal for a New Field of Technical Activity in Standardization of Service Activities Relating to Drinking Water Supply and Sewerage (2001)

ISO/TC 224 Business Plan (Draft #1) -Service activities relating to drinking water supply and sewerage (2002)

Related Articles
New ISO Technical Committee on Drinking Water (2001)

Public Citizen’s Harmonization Project's Response to the Creation of New Standards (2001)

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Corporate Social Responsibility

ISO Documents
COPOLCO Resolution June 2002 (2002)

Related Articles
NEW !!! | ANEC (European Consumer Voice on Standardization) Position Paper on Standardisation and Corporate Social Responsibility (2004)

IISD's Report on ISO Strategic Advisory Group on CSR February 2004 (2004)

IISD's Report of the First Meeting of the ISO Strategic Advisory Group on CSR (2003)

IISD's Background Paper to the ISO Strategic Advisory Group on CSR (2003)

COPOLCO Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop Preceedings (2002)

Report to ISO COPOLCO on Desirability and Feasibility of ISO CSR Standards (2002)

ISO Group Proposes Development of Corporate Social Responsibility Standard (2002)

A Daunting New Challenge - Are Standards the Right Mechanism to Advance CSR? (2002)

Promoting a European Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility- EU Green Paper (2001)

European Committe's Comment on Corporate Social Responsibility: A business contribution to Sustainable Development (2001)

Links
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - ISO Corporate Social Responsibility Website

ISO CSR Forum

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Homepage

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Environmental Communication

ISO Documents
ISO 14063 Environmental Communication Standard Committee Draft 2 (2004)

Decisionf of the ISO TC 207 WG4 Meeting, Paris (2004)

Related Articles
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (2002)

Experts Move Communications Standard Ahead in Kuala Lumpur (2001)

ISO Backs Environmental Reporting (2001)

GRI and ISO 14063 (2001)

GRI and ISO 14000 (2001)

Making Informed Choices, Public Information and the Environment (2002)

Links
Global Reporting Initiative Homepage

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NGO Participation in ISO

ISO Documents

TC 207 NGO Workplan Ballot Result (2005)

TC 207 NGO Workplan Ballot Comments (2005)

TC 207 NGO Workplan (2004)

Increasing the Effectiveness of NGO Participation in ISO TC207(2003)

A Guide for NGO Participation in ISO/TC 207 (2002)

Related Articles
International Standards Group Asked To Let Interest Groups into the Tent (2004)

Participation of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Environmental Governance: Legal Basis and Practical Experience (2003)

NGOs Move Beyond Politics to Productive Work (2002)

IESU Leadership Spotlight: Jason Morrison, Chairman of ISO Technical Committee 207 NGO Task Group (2002)

Enhancing NGO Participation in the Work of TC 207 (2002)

Environmental Non-governmental Organization (ENGO) Participation in National Standards Setting (2002)

NGO Task Group Starts with a Sputter (2001)

NGOs Gain Momentum within TC 207 (2001)

Links
ECOLOGIA ISO 14000 NGO Initiative

ISEAL (International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling) Alliance

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ISO 14001 and EMS

ISO Documents

Draft International Standard ISO 14001 (2004)

Draft International Standard ISO 14004 (2004)

Related Articles
EMS survey reveals widespread concerns over certification (2003)

Article: Environmental Management Systems - Do they provide real business values? (2004)

Article: Study Finds Presence of EMS Provides Platform for Improvement (2004)

UK's Accreditation Organization Developing Procedures to Measure the Effectiveness of EMS (2004)

Proceedings:"Joint workshop to examine connections between environmental management systems and permitting, inspection and enforcement in regulation" (2003)

MSWG Releases New Consensus Statement on ISO 14001(2000)

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International Standardization General

ISO Documents

"ISO Horizon 2010: Standards for a Sustainable World" (2003)

ISO Council Resolutions September 2003 (2003)

ISO TMB Resolutions September 2003 (2003)

ISO General Assembly Resolutions September 2003 (2003)

ISO DEVCO Resolutions September 2003 (2003)

"GLOBAL RELEVANCE OF ISO TECHNICAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS" (2003)

COMMUNIQUÉ: 10th Annual Meeting of ISO/TC 207 on Environmental Management (2002)

"Raising Standards for the World- ISO Strategies 2002-2004" (2001)

ISO Bulletin Article on CASCO- October 2002 Issue (2002)

Related Articles
ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards Public Draft 2 (2003)

Guidance on ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards (2003)

Code of Good Practice for Voluntary Process and Production Method Standard-Setting Procedures Public Draft 1 (2003)

Future Role of Environmental Standards (2000)

Links
IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development)'s Standard and Trade Site

ISO's Conformity Assessment Site

ISO Homepage

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