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ISO International Standards provide the international community with practical tools for tackling global challenges such as energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, climate change, health, safety, security and the dissemination of innovative technologies.
This section will periodically present topics of international concern, or which occupy the media headlines and will highlight published ISO standards, standards under development and ongoing standardization initiatives that are relevant to these concerns and that can contribute to resolving them.
Climate change
Out of a current total of more than 17 000 ISO normative documents, some 570 are environment-related, including recent standards specifically developed to support greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting, claim verification and trading.
Energy
Facilitating energy efficiency and renewable energy sources is a strategic focus area for ISO. This section presents related material, including the special issue of ISO Focus developed for the November 2007 World Energy Congress.
Nanotechnologies
Nanotechnologies cover a variety of fields of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale. It requires the integration of many scientific, engineering and technical disciplines and International Standards contribute at three levels: assisting the innovation process, addressing the challenges in measurement at the nanoscale, and helping to alleviate concerns over potential health and environmental impacts.
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