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Organizations around the world, as well as ISO International Standards and related
their stakeholders, are becoming increasingly normative documents provide consumers,
aware of the need for environmental regulators and organizations in both public
management, socially responsible behaviour, and private sectors with environmental tools
and sustainable growth and development. with the following characteristics :
Origins Compatibility
ISO technical committee ISO/TC 207, From its beginning, it was recognized that
Environmental management, is ISO/TC 207 should cooperate closely with
responsible for developing and maintaining ISO/TC 176, Quality management and
the ISO 14000 family of standards. quality assurance – the ISO technical
The committee’s current portfolio consists committee responsible for the ISO 9000
of 21 published International Standards and family of quality management standards – in
other types of normative document, with the areas of management systems, auditing
another nine new or revised documents in and related terminology.
preparation.
Successful steps have been taken to
ISO/TC 207 was established in 1993, as ensure compatibility of the ISO 14001 and
a result of ISO’s commitment to respond ISO 9001 standards to facilitate their use by
to the complex challenge of “sustainable organizations that wish to implement both
development” articulated at the 1992 United environmental and quality management
Nations Conference on Environment and systems to benefit themselves and their
Development in Rio de Janeiro. customers and stakeholders. These steps
include a common standard (ISO 19011) giving
It also stemmed from an intensive guidelines for auditing environmental and/or
consultation process, carried out within the quality management systems.
framework of the ISO Strategic Advisory
Group on Environment (SAGE). SAGE
was established in 1991 and brought together Global participation
representatives of a variety of countries and
international organizations – a total of more Membership of ISO/TC 207 is among the
than 100 environmental experts – who helped highest of any ISO technical committee and is
to define how International Standards could both broad and diverse in representation, two
support better environmental management. key indicators of the worldwide interest in the
work of this technical committee. National dele-
As a result, the ISO 14000 family of gations of environmental experts from over 100
standards for environmental management countries participate in ISO/TC 207, including
was launched to provide a practical toolbox 27 developing countries. The leadership of the
to assist in the implementation of actions committee is “ twinned ” between a developed
supportive to sustainable development. and developing country (currently Canada and
Brazil).
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ISO 14051 will provide guidelines for general The development programme of
principles and framework of material flow ISO/TC 207 is constantly evolving, driven by
cost accounting (MFCA). MFCA is a man- market needs. Hence the above is a small
agement tool to promote effective resource sample of areas where standards are currently
utilization, mainly in manufacturing and distribu- in development. Please consult www.iso.org
tion processes, in order to reduce the relative for an up-to-date programme of standards
consumption of resources and material costs. under development by ISO/TC 207.
Environmental Management 2009 – 7
Environmental and economic
benefits
Check
ISO/AWI 14033
Environmental management
– Quantitative environmental
information – Guidelines and
examples
ISO/WD 14045
Eco-efficiency assessment –
Principles and requirements
ISO 14064-2:2006
Greenhouse gases –
Part 2 : Specification with
guidance at the project level
for quantification, monitoring
and reporting of greenhouse
gas emission reductions or
removal enhancements
ISO/WD 14067-1
Carbon footprint of products
– Part 1: Quantification
ISO/WD 14067-2
Carbon footprint of products
– Part 2: Communication
ISO/AWI 14069
GHG – Quantification and
reporting of GHG emissions
for organizations (Carbon
footprint of organization) –
Guidance for the application
of ISO 14064-1
Web sites
ISO :
www.iso.org
ISO/TC 207 :
www.tc207.org
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