Sustainability Legislation

What sort of improvements can you make by using standards?

Environmental management – use fewer resources, cut waste, increase recycling and reduce landfill
Energy management – reduce your energy costs.
Emissions verification – don’t just declare it, verify it
Carbon neutrality – achieve net zero carbon emissions.
Social accountability – understand and improve your impact on your local community.

sustainability standards can drive business performance

Sustainability standards can drive business performance

This BSi report reviews case studies and provides a general overview how business can improve through the adoption of sustainability practices and principles

BS 14040 LCA Analysis

LCA addresses the environmental aspects and potential environmental impacts e.g. use of resources and
the environmental consequences of releases) throughout a product's life cycle from raw material acquisition
through production, use, end-of-life treatment, recycling and final disposal (i.e. cradle-to-grave).

BS ISO 2006

Social Sustainability

Social responsibility has become one of the most important factors to measure your organization’s performance and this is true of all sectors of society.

Social responsibility is an organization’s legal and voluntary duty to consider its social and environmental impact of its decisions and activities.

A corporate responsibility strategy outlines the ways that an organization contributes to sustainable development, engages with its stakeholders and behaves ethically.

BS ISO 14006

Guidelines on Eco Design

International concern over damage to the environment (e.g. in the form of climate change, depletion of resources, and air, water and soil environmental pollution) is encouraging organizations to pay more attention to managing the environmental impacts of their activities and products and to focus on continuously improving their environmental performance.

In order to reduce detrimental effects on the environment, more and more organizations are recognizing the need to include environmental performance in the design of their products.

BS ISO 14001

Eco Management Systems

Achieving a balance between the environment, society and the economy is considered essential to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Sustainable development as a goal is achieved by balancing the three pillars of sustainability.
Societal expectations for sustainable development, transparency and accountability have evolved with
increasingly stringent legislation, growing pressures on the environment from pollution, inefficient use of resources, improper waste management, climate change, degradation of ecosystems and loss of
biodiversity.
This has led organizations to adopt a systematic approach to environmental management by implementing environmental management systems with the aim of contributing to the environmental pillar of sustainability.

BS 8903

Framework for Procuring Sustainably

A strategy which intended to help organizations and individuals consider and implement sustainable practices within their procurement processes, and ongoing management of their respective supply chains.
Sustainable procurement means only purchasing goods that are really needed, and buying items or services whose production, use and disposal both minimize negative impacts and encourage positive outcomes for the environment, economy and society.

BS ISO 37120

Sustainable development of Communities

establishes definitions and methodologies for a set of city indicators to steer and measure delivery of city services and quality of life.

As part of a new series of International Standards being developed for a holistic and integrated approach to sustainable development and resilience, this set of standardized indicators provides a uniform approach to what is measured, and how that measurement is
to be undertaken.

BS ISO 8900-1

Managing sustainable
development of
organizations

Stakeholders’ expectations of both public and private sector organizations continue to expand and deepen. The concept of sustainable development
provides a framework for responding to a significant number of these expectations.

Sustainable development is taken to mean an enduring, balanced approach to social progress, economic
activity and environmental responsibility

ISO 14045:2012

Environmental Management - assessment of product systems

Eco-efficiency assessment is a quantitative management tool which enables the study of life-cycle environmental
impacts of a product system along with its product system value for a stakeholder.
Within eco-efficiency assessment, environmental impacts are evaluated using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Consequently, eco-efficiency assessment shares with LCA many important principles such as life cycle perspective, comprehensiveness, functional unit approach, iterative nature, transparency and priority of a scientific approach.