Putting sustainability at the heart of the standards agenda
A new ISO guide will help ensure climate change issues are addressed in every new standard.
The electronic version of this Guide can be downloaded from the ISO/IEC Directives and Guides web page.
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This document provides guidance to standards developers on how to take account of sustainability in the drafting, revision and updating of ISO standards and similar deliverables.
It outlines a methodology that ISO standards developers can use to develop their own approach to addressing sustainability on a subject-specific basis.
General information
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Status : PublishedPublication date : 2019-11
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Edition : 2Number of pages : 22
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- ICS :
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Standardization. General rules
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Environment and environmental protection in general
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The electronic version of this Guide can be downloaded from the ISO/IEC Directives and Guides web page.
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