ISO TC 207 Environmental Management

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1 ISO TC 207 Environmental Management by Marsha Cheddi, Secretary, ISO TC 207 SC7 October 22, The ISO System ISO - the International Organization for Standardization was established in 1947 and is based in Geneva, Switzerland; ISO a non-governmental organization is a federation of the national standards bodies of 157 countries (one per country) and 500+ international/regional liaison members; ISO is comprised of 3,000+ technical groups that develop standards; ISO develops standards by transparent, consensus-based procedures based on national input; ISO has published over 16,500 international standards; ISO standards are designed to be implemented world-wide. 2 1

2 ISO TC 207 A Short History The World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) was founded on the eve of the Rio Earth Summit to involve business in sustainability issues and give it a voice in the forum. The WBCSD approached ISO to consider the development of environmental management standards The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janerio. Agreement was reached on Agenda 21 on how governments, enterprises and non-governmental organisations could cooperate to achieve sustainable development. ISO established Technical Committee 207 on Environmental Management to develop the ISO series of international standards on environmental management. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) supported development of the ISO series of international standards to "level the playing field" for international trade agreements. The first edition of ISO was published. 3 ISO TC 207 Scope and Membership Scope: Standardization in the field of environmental management systems and tools in support of sustainable development. Membership: 75 Participating Countries, 26 Observing Countries, 41 Liaison organizations. 4 2

3 The ISO Toolkit Competitiveness Social resp. Innovation Quality Sustainability Knowledge Management Environnement Risk OHS Business continuity Security Profitability ISO standards can form the basis of a sustainable development toolkit for organizations 5 ISO TC 207 Subcommittees SC 1 SC 2 SC 3 SC 4 SC 5 SC 7 Environmental management systems Environmental auditing & related environmental investigations Environmental labelling Environmental performance evaluation Life cycle assessment Greenhouse Gas Management and Related Activities 6 3

4 SC 7 Guiding Principles Technical rigour. Speed to market. Extensive participation. Policy/regime neutral. 7 SC7 Programme of Work ISO ,2,3 (completed) ISO (completed) ISO (under development) ISO (new work item proposal stage) 8 4

5 Benefits Environmental Integrity Risk Management Market Certainty / Investor Confidence Facilitate Trade Voluntary or Regulatory Initiatives Promotes consistency, transparency and credibility in greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement, reporting and verification. Entities enabled to identify and manage GHGrelated risks. Enables the creation of credible, comparable GHG units. Supports the fungability or trade of GHG units (ie, allowances, credits). Facilitates participation in GHG registry or reporting initiatives, baseline protection, credit for early action or emissions trading schemes. 9 Potential Deliverables Type Description Approval Revision Max. Life International Standard Document, established by consensus and approved by ISO 2/3 majority P voting <1/4 votes negative 5 years No limit Technical Specification Document published by ISO for which there is the future possibility of agreement on an International Standard 2/3 majority P voting 3 years 6 years Publicly Available Specification Document published by ISO to respond to an urgent market need, representing a consensus of the experts within a working group. Simple majority P voting 3 years 6 years Technical Report Document published by ISO containing Simple majority P voting No review No limit 10 5

6 ISO Development Process Stage Deliverable ISO Target Dates Availability Ends With Preliminary Preliminary Work Item (PWI) - Proposal New Work Item Proposal (NP) Prepatory Working Draft(s) (WD) 6 months Approval to register 1st CD. Proposed draft Technical Specification. Approved draft Publicly Available Specification. Approved draft Technical Report. Committee Committee Draft(s) (CD) 12 months Proposed draft International Standard. Approved draft Technical Specification. Enquiry Enquiry Draft(s) (ISO/DIS) 24 months Proposed final draft International Standard. Approval Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) 33 months Approved/rejected text of International Standard. Publication International Standard (ISO) 36 months Approved text of International Standard, Technical Specification, Publicly Available Specification or Technical Report. 11 ISO International Standards for a sustainable world Thank You