Key assumptions
Importance of international trade as an engine for development and sustained economic growth.
Need for a universal, equitable, rules-based multilateral trading system, which uses standards to assess, evaluate and verify technology and product performance.
Effective development, deployment, and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) and related know how, through engagement and collaboration with stakeholders.
Scope of TC 207 - Environmental management
Standardization to address management of environmental and climate impacts, including related social and economic aspects, in support of sustainable development.
Focused on:
- environmental management systems
- auditing
- verification/validation and related investigations
- environmental labelling
- environmental performance evaluation
- life cycle assessment
- climate change and its mitigation and adaptation
- eco-design
- material efficiency
- environmental economics
- environmental and climate finance.
ISO/TC 207 Sub-committees
- SC 1 - Environmental management systems
- SC 2 - Environmental auditing and related environmental investigations
- SC 3 - Environmental labelling
- SC 4 - Environmental performance evaluation
- SC 5 - Life cycle assessment
- SC 7 - Greenhouse gas and climate change management and related activities
ISO/TC 207 also works in cooperation with existing committees that support environmental management. Currently, there two Task Groups within TC 207:
- ISO/TC 207/TG 1 on Sustainable Finance Coordination, which facilitates the exchange of information between ISO/TC 207 Environmental Management and ISO/TC 322 on Sustainable Finance. The coordination between these two TCs facilitates the development of coherent standards that support sustainable finance.
- ISO/TC 207/TG 2 on Circular Economy Coordination, which facilitates the exchange of information between ISO/TC 207 Environmental Management and ISO/TC 323 on the Circular Economy. This coordination between these two TCs facilitates the development of coherent standards that support the circular economy.
Excluded under ISO/TC 207 are: Test methods of pollutants; Setting limit values and levels of environmental performance; Standardization of products.
