Description
Environmental protection and sustainable development are at the core of European and national policies and legislation, such as the European Green Deal, Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality ("European Climate Law"), and Luxembourg’s PNDD (Plan National pour un développement durable). International standards – in particular the ISO 14000 series – provide organizations with practical tools to more easily align with these political and legal frameworks, and to help demonstrating their commitment to environmental sustainability. This session provides an overview of European and national political and legal frameworks related to environmental management, introduces relevant ISO standards, and explains how stakeholders can engage in related standardization activities.
Objectives
- Know the European and national policies and legal frameworks
- Explore main ISO standards for environmental management and greenhouse gas accounting supporting the legal frameworks
- Discover opportunities to participate in technical standardization and contribute to future developments in the field of environmental management
Program
- Introduction to environmental management
- Standardization and regulation
- Definition of a standard
- Interplay between standards and legislation
- Standardization committees for environmental management
- Overview of European and national policies and legal frameworks for environmental management
- European policies and legal framework such as the European Green Deal and topic related legislations
- Luxembourg's National Plan for Sustainable Development (PNDD)
- Overview of technical committees and existing standards on environmental management
- ISO/TC 207 and subcommittees and ISO 14001 – Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use
- ISO standards on environmental auditing activities
- ISO standards on environmental labelling
- ISO standards on environmental performance evaluation
- ISO standards on greenhouse gas and climate change management and related activities
- National standardization efforts
Target audience
Consultants, HSE/ESG/sustainability managers, researchers and students, companies considering ISO certification or improved compliance.
Duration
3 hours