ISO Focus - June 2004

Fostering environmental sustainability

ISO Focus, June 2004

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Comment

Ziva Patir, ISO Vice-President (Technical management)
To be sorry may not be enough

Guest View

Bertrand Collomb, Chair, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

"ISO standards not only help to manage quality but also to manage reputation."
Read the full interview (PDF, 277 KB)

Main Focus

Fostering environmental sustainability

• Contributing to a better environment
• Yet more robust: revised ISO 14001 and ISO 14004
• Greenhouse gas accounting and verification
• Common ground - healthy soil
• The air in air quality
• Water - a worldwide challenge
• Nuclear energy- an outstanding safety record
• The graphical symbol for radioactivity is not recognized
• Hydrogen, an environmentally benign energy carrier
• Power generation and the environment

Developments and initiatives

• What you cannot protect, you cannot own
• MPEG rights expression language to fuel flow of multimedia
• Departure of Dr. Anwar El-Tawil

New this month

• IEC and ISO common database for graphical symbols
• Guidelines to reduce hydrogen hazards in new energy applications

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