New ISO 14064 standards provide tools for assessing and supporting greenhouse gas reduction and emissions trading

The ISO 14064 standards for greenhouse gas accounting and verification published on 1 March 2006 by ISO provide government and industry with an integrated set of tools for programmes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as for emissions trading.

ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden commented: “Claims made about reductions of the greenhouse gas emissions widely held responsible for climate change may have political and financial implications, in addition to environmental and technical ones. Ensuring their credibility is thus vital.”

ISO launched the development of ISO 14064 in 2002 as a solution to the problems posed by the fact that governments, business corporations and voluntary initiatives were using a number of approaches to account for organization- and project-level GHG emissions and removals with no generally accepted validation or verification protocols.

A new set of guidelines to enable management to deliver authentic, reliable and useable records over time to meet their business needs has just been published by ISO.

Records are created, received and constantly referred to in the conduct of business activities. To preserve records and guarantee their authenticity, reliability, usability and integrity, metadata must be produced through time both within and across domains. The implementation of the new ISO 23081-1:2006 will support business and records management processes by enabling records to be used in any application or information system.

ISO/IEC standard benchmarks quality of e-learning

An ISO/IEC International Standard aims to harmonize the various approaches used around the world for assessing the quality of e-learning initiatives. ISO/IEC 19796-1:2005, Information technology – Learning, education and training – Quality management, assurance and metrics – Part 1: General approach, provides an overall framework which can be used for introducing quality approaches in all provider and user organizations of e-learning. The standard will make it easier to compare and evaluate the relative merits of different initiatives.

Leading industry groups call for International Standards to shape the future of the digital home

Household connectivity is growing rapidly with more and more electronic devices and networks within the home distributing and using digital information and media. In addition, remote control of lighting, heating, appliance-use and security systems attached to the home are making the “digital home” a reality. Given the various technologies involved, International Standards that enable interoperability and security are seen as key to bringing value and versatility to consumers, making possible the use of diverse products, services and sources, and therefore accelerating market development.

This was the key conclusion of a successful World Standards Cooperation (WSC) workshop bringing together some 100 experts from industry, the academic community and standards developing organizations, in Geneva, Switzerland.

ISO at Davos: International Standards ‘tools for positive globalization and sharing innovation’

ISO’s International Standards are force multipliers that enable government, business and society to lever the positive aspects of globalization and they also ensure that the benefits of innovation are shared worldwide. This was the core message communicated by ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden at the World Economic Forum (WEF) which took place at Davos, Switzerland. The forum attracted more than 2 200 global leaders to debate the major challenges on the coming business agenda:

Double release: new DVD of ISO 7000 graphical symbols for equipment and CD-ROM of ISO 14617 graphical symbols for diagrams

ISO is making available for the first time a DVD of ISO 7000, Graphical symbols for use on equipment and a CD-ROM of the published ISO 14617, Graphical symbols for diagrams suite of standards.

The DVD contains over 2 400 of ISO 7000:2004 graphical symbols, which can be placed on any equipment, from automobiles, textile, home entertainment equipment to earth-moving machinery.

The CD-ROM with the ISO 14617 standards consists of 15 parts, each containing graphical symbols for use in diagrams, together with rules for the presentation and application of these symbols and examples of their use.

• Launching of ISO 14064 for greenhouse gas accounting and verification
• ISO studies people aspects in quality management
• ISO prevents misuse of its name on Internet to the benefit of consumers
  

• Early adopters underline benefits of new ISO standard for safe food supply chains
• ISO 9000 in China’s Great March to quality
• ISO/TR 14062 provides road map for designing environmentally friendly car

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